{"id":1114,"date":"2017-11-23T08:05:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T08:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/sharjah\/en\/obaidas-killer-executed\/"},"modified":"2017-11-23T08:05:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T08:05:22","slug":"obaidas-killer-executed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/sharjah\/en\/news\/obaidas-killer-executed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Sexually Assaulted And Murdered Eight-Year-Old Obaida Was Executed This Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-adunit c-adunit--mpu\">\n<div id=\"mpu\" class=\"c-adunit__container\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 49-year-old man found guilty of sexually assaulting and killing an eight-year-old boy has been executed by firing squad on Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/obaidas-killer-to-be-executed\">The Jordanian man was found guilty of the crimes last year by the Courts,<\/a> in a case that rocked the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Obaida was eight years old when he went missing from his father&#8217;s garage in Sharjah\u00a0in May 2016, and his body was discovered on the side of Academic City\u00a0Road in Al Warqa,\u00a0two days later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>The man, Nidal Eissa Abdullah, was found guilty by the courts with his final appeal rejected in February\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s reported the man took the boy to the Al Mamzar beach where he raped him, before strangling him to death in the car.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah admitted during the trial he had consumed alcohol on the day he committed the crime.<\/p>\n<p>He was submitted for psychological evaluations, which found he suffered from alcohol dependency and antisocial personality disorder, but was mentally stable enough to distinguish right from wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah&#8217;s remains will be repatriated to his home country, following his execution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-adunit c-adunit--mpu_mid\">\n<div id=\"mpu_mid\" class=\"c-adunit__container\"> 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