Ajman man 'murders' lover and co-worker before handing himself in to police

He suspected the two were having an affair

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A man who killed his lover and the man he though she was having an affair with has turned himself in to Ajman police.

The Arab man, 20, a guard at a private security firm, walked into Al Madinah police station wearing bloodied clothes.
"He told officers that he killed his lover and his colleague," said Lt Col Ahmad Saeed Al Nuaimi, director of the criminal investigations department at Ajman police.
He said his lover, with whom he had been in a relationship with for three years, was cheating on him with his co-worker.
At around 10pm on the day of the murder, he met with the colleague near his residence in Al Nakheel 2 in Ajman and they argued.
"The argument escalated, the accused told us, and he picked up a pitchfork and stabbed his colleague in the head," said Mr Al Nuaimi.
Police were dispatched to the crime scene and they found an Arab man in his 40s, bleeding heavily but still alive.
"He was found bleeding from a severe head injury, lying on the floor of the car park of his building."
The suspect, believing that the co-worker had died, called his lover and agreed to meet her at their usual spot on top of a tower in Rashidiya at 11pm.
"He said he bought scissors on his way and stabbed her in the neck and in different parts of her body," said Mr Al Nuaimi.
After making sure the woman was dead, he sat next to her body for about five hours before he decided to turn himself over to authorities.

The co-worker later died in hospital.
Police found the pitchfork discarded behind the building where the crime took place.
The case has been referred to the prosecutors for further investigations.