DUBAI: Two brothers who took matters into their own hands and broke a kinsman’s limbs after failing to be satisfied with legal solutions to family wrangles have lost the case.

The Asian supervisor, 38, and visitor, 32, first booked flights in preparation to flee abroad, then headed to the 33-year-old Emirati employee’s residence in Nahdah area on Mar.15.

They whipped him with metallic baseball bats, breaking his right leg, right arm, nose and left facial bones besides inflicting wounds and cuts on his head and left ear. They abandoned him in a sandy area.

They denied the charge at the Criminal Court. Police and prosecution records showed they earlier confessed. The Appeals Court has upheld their two-year-jail and deportation punishment.

Both had lurked in waiting for him inside the building’s dark parking lot and attacked him around 4am. He tried to defend himself while shouting for help. They flogged him severely.

He collapsed. They picked his car keys and phone. The visitor started the car’s engine. They shoved him inside its trunk as he bled profusely. The visitor drove to the main road and parked.

They placed him inside the visitor’s car’s rear seat. The supervisor fetched duct tape from his own car. They used it to seal his mouth shut and face and also tie his hands to his back.

The visitor drove the car to a nearby refueling station in Al Muhaisna. The supervisor wore the visitor’s jacket to cover the blood stains on his clothes, entered a shop and purchased more duct tape.

On the way to Rashidiyah they kept threatening to kill him and hurl his body in the sea. They stopped outside the supervisor’s house, wrapped him and tied him to the seat with duct tape.

The visitor drove the car tailing the supervisor’s car. They went to the sandy area where the visitor stepped out and locked the victim inside. He sat in the supervisor’s car and they sped off.

At around 6am a jogging Emirati man heard knocking sounds in the car. “The victim was bleeding from the head and broken leg. He breathed with difficulty as there was no fresh air inside. I contacted the police,” he said.

An ambulance rushed him to Rashid Hospital. The victim alerted police the duo had set off for the airport. Cops nabbed the supervisor who was heading to Britain and the visitor who was heading to Pakistan.