Mansouri, the mother of Sara who was shot and buried by her Emirati father in the desert of the neighboring country in February, has said that her daughter watched her father dig her grave as she bled to death for an hour and a half. Saudi Gazette reported earlier this month how Al-Mansouri's daughter, a political science student of Emirati nationality in her twenties, had been staying with her father when her mother lost contact with her. “I sent her a text message, but days went by and she didn't reply. After 10 days worrying about her I called her stepsister, Umm Isa, who said Sara was at her father's other house in Al-Aliya. I called her stepmother and she told me she wasn't home and that all the girls' mobile phones had been confiscated by their father.” She said she was told of Sara's death on Feb. 23 by a cousin who had spoken to the father. He has confessed to the murder. Al-Mansouri now says that she wants investigators to look into the roles of the accused's wives as well as his sons and daughters in Sara's death. She has also asked for Sara's personal possessions to be handed over, including her BlackBerry mobile telephone, her death certificate, and the medical report on her death. Al-Mansouri told Okaz/Saudi Gazette that the reason given for her death was that she “ran away from home for three days after an argument with her sisters and in fear of her father and a step-brother”. “Her grandfather took her to her father's house and demanded that she be looked after properly and not subjected to any maltreatment,” Al-Mansouri said. “He asked that she remain with her father's wife, and the father and an uncle promised to look after her. Since that day – February 5 – I never saw her again.” She said that investigators had told her that Sara's father had confessed to taking her from his house to the desert with a machine gun and a shroud. The father is reported to have said when Sara asked why he wanted to killer her that she had “been disobedient”. “Her father tied her hands and legs and dug her grave as she watched,” Al-Mansouri said. “He shot her once in the right side of her chest and the bullet punctured her lung, causing internal bleeding. She lay bleeding for an hour and a half before she died, and then her father removed her clothes, washed her body and shrouded her before putting her in the grave he had dug. He put a wooden board over the body and filled in the grave.” The father then returned home and changed his clothes. When he was asked by his family about Sara's whereabouts he told them he had killed her. “They told him he should hand himself in to the police, and later that evening he did,” she said. “I spoke to the embassy and was later shown her body. She appeared weak and debilitated. She was reburied in Al-Ain Cemetery.” Sara, who was born after her parents' separation, was the product of a two-month marriage between Al-Mansouri and her first cousin. She lived with her mother until the age of seven when her father demanded that she be handed over to him in the Emirates so she could go to school there. “I didn't want to get into an argument with him about her upbringing,” Al-Mansouri said.”
