Dubai court reduces sentence for editor who killed his wife

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Dubai court reduces sentence for editor who killed his wife.

Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.The court ordered Wednesday that former Gulf News editor Francis Matthew must serve a seven-year sentence for manslaughter in the 2017 killing of his wife, Jane.

Matthew had received as much as a 15-year sentence for the killing. A series of appeals has seen his sentence change and his case go before Dubai's Court of Appeal. That court Wednesday order Matthew be convicted of manslaughter, rather than premeditated murder, which carries a heftier sentence. Matthew and his wife of 30 years were prominent members of the United Arab Emirates' large British expatriate community.

 

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Please tell us full story! Has Dubai lost its sense?

This bigger doesn't like women.

In a culture where men are kings and women means next to nothing...it's not a wonder.

God /Allah is not reducing that sentence. He will pay one way or the other

Why did he kill her?

7 years for killing your wife with a hammer

he is so relieved that now it's just a public beheading 😉

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