An Indian and his Sri Lankan friend, both on death row for murdering their colleague, were saved by a UAE man who helped to pay their “blood money”. Radwad Naeem, 37, an Indian and Sri Lankan Abdul Rahim Mohammad Farouq, 43, had spent about 10 years in jail after a court convicted them for murder of their roommate.The two had stabbed their roommate to death after a fight over which movie to watch. A court here sentenced the two to death in 1998 for the murder of their colleague, who hails from Kerala.Emirati Khadim M Al Daheri, 42, who saved the duo said he was just responding to the friendship he shared with the two men during his short stay in Al Ain jail.“They taught me Koran and religious matters in which I was very weak,” said Al Daheri, who coordinated efforts to secure a pardon from the family of the victim.Al Daheri also asked another Emirati to contribute to diya (blood money) in order to secure pardon from relatives of the victim, Gulf News reported.Norjahan, mother of Radwad Naeem Al Deen, talking over the phone from her home in Maharastra said she had almost lost hope to secure her son’s release as her visits to the victim’s house in Kerala failed to bring in any results.“My family and I tried to speak to the victim’s family but with little success. My brothers also visited them several times,” said Noorjahan.Al Deen, who has reached India, said he has no words to express his happiness in meeting his parents, wife and three children again. “I did not have any money but Khadim Al Daheri gave me flight tickets and some money. He regularly calls me,” said Al Deen.“Man becomes an animal when he is angry and things happen,” Al Daheri said of his friends conviction for killing their roommate.Al Daheri said he himself went to jail in 2001 on an economic offence. “I was held accountable for certain financial irregularities committed by a group of Arab nationals who ran an agricultural company under my sponsorship and fled the country,” he claimed.
