KUWAIT: The criminal court sentenced a Sri Lankan man to death for murdering his wife. The suspect confessed he was behind an explosion in a three-storey building in Salmiya that injured him and killed his wife and another woman. The suspect confessed that he planned to make the crime look like an accident, so he made a hole in the gas pipe, which caused a huge explosion. He said the move was the result of complicated disputes he failed to resolve.

Exonerated

The appeals misdemeanors court canceled a ruling of the court of first instance that convicted a school vice principal and jailed her for six months for defrauding a computer company, and exonerated her from the charges. The case began when the company told police it was swindled by a person who made it believe that he can mediate with a school to supply it with several computers. The vice principal's lawyer said there are no merits of being party to the swindling charges against his client based on the judicial principle that a person may be questioned if he contributed to the action that required the punishment, which does not exist in this case. - Translated from the Arabic press