A series of appeals has seen his sentence change and his case go before Dubai’s Court of Appeal. ADOn Wednesday, the court changed Matthew’s charge to manslaughter but reduced the sentence to seven years rather than two, followed by deportation. ADThe UAE has a reputation for having stringent sentencing procedures, with people serving hefty sentences and fines for financial or non-violent crimes, raising concerns by relatives about Matthew’s sentence. “Dubai judges clearly preferred to defend Francis’s pride rather than Jane’s life,” Manning told The Associated Press after Wednesday’s sentencing. Matthew told the police that robbers had broken into the home and killed her.

Source: Washington Post November 27, 2019 08:25 UTC