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SAUJDI COURT SENTENCES DRIVER TO DEATH BY BEHEADING FOR KILLING TWO PEOPLE DURING ‘FAST AND FURIOUS-STYLE DRIFTING’ CAR STUNT

Mail Online
June 26, 2012

A Saudi driver has been sentenced to death by beheading after accidentally killing two men while performing a Fast And The Furious-style stunt with his car.

The middle-aged man struck and killed his victims as he was 'drifting' - where drivers make their cars spin and skid at high speed - near the capital Riyadh.

He fled the scene before being arrested.

Saudi newspaper Al Watan reported today that: 'The court of Onaiza handed down a sentence to kill the drifter by beheading as punishment for his heinous deed.

'It is to deter others who tamper with the nation's security.'

Drifting, brought to life on the big screen through the film franchise starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, is said to be popular among Saudi men.

They have few options for entertainment in the conservative kingdom and, ironically considering they try to emulate the film, cinemas do not exist.

Mixing between unrelated men and women is also forbidden.

The newspaper said the man identified himself as 'Mutannish', which means 'he who ignores' in Arabic.

Al Watan did not say when the sentence would be carried out. And a Justice Ministry spokesman could not be reached for comment.

Saudi authorities are known to treat deaths resulting from acts of 'drifting' as criminally negligent homicides.

In 2005, a Saudi naval officer found guilty of killing three minors in a stunt-driving accident was handed a death sentence.

It was subsequently reduced to 3,000 lashes and 20 years in prison.

Saudi Arabia, which follows a strict version of Sunni Islam, does not have a written penal code and judges issue verdicts according to their own interpretation of the Koran.

Amnesty International has said that at least 82 people were executed in Saudi Arabia last year, many of them by public beheading.