09 January 2008 :

the Appeal Court in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, upheld the death sentence against an American who murdered a German engineer last year, a legal source told Gulf News. The court rejected the plea of Shahid Poliss King and confirmed the death sentence against him for killing Martin Herbert Steiner by suffocating him, stuffing the body in a suitcase and dumping it in the desert. A court source told Gulf News Poliss, in his mid-30s, was sentenced to death while his Ethiopian partner, Fawzia Nigash Yousuf, was convicted of aiding and abetting the crime, theft and having an illicit affair. Steiner, a 48 year old German businessman, had been reported missing and his decomposed body was found 15 days later by police off the Dubai-Hatta Road. Poliss, an American Muslim, entered the country on a visit visa using a forged British passport, according to sources.