Dubai: A public relations director has been sentenced to one year in jail for hurling a hard object at a security officer’s face and injuring his eye after they scuffled.

The 26-year-old Syrian director, F.B., grabbed the hard object and tossed it angrily at the 30-year-old Jordanian security officer, M.F., when they fought at a nightclub in a mall in June 2013.

Prosecutors had charged F.B. with assaulting M.F. and causing him a 20 per cent permanent disability in his eye.

Meanwhile, M.F. was charged with beating F.B.

The Dubai Court of First Instance jailed F.B. after he was convicted of assaulting M.F. and causing him a permanent disfigurement in his eye.

According to Tuesday’s ruling, presiding judge Mohammad Jamal acquitted the Jordanian of assaulting the Syrian for lack of corroborated evidence. Dubai Police’s forensic examiner confirmed that M.F. sustained two injuries in his nose and eye. Medical reports confirmed that the Jordanian’s nose injury healed within a few days. His eyesight, however, was affected and his vision was slightly impaired. Forensic doctors estimated M.F.’s visual impairment as a 20 per cent permanent disability.

When the duo showed up in court, they pleaded not guilty and each party accused the other of initiating the assault.

M.F. had lodged a civil lawsuit in which he sought Dh21,000 in temporary compensation for his injury.

Presiding judge Jamal dismissed the civil lawsuit.

The Jordanian told prosecutors that F.B. tossed a hard object at his eye when they had a fight.

Records did not specify the reasons why the duo fought.

A policeman testified that the assault took place near a mall in Jebel Ali.

“Once I reached the location for investigations, M.F. was sitting inside an ambulance getting treatment for his eye injury. He was bleeding. When I asked him what happened, he claimed that the Syrian hurled a rock in his face,” said the policeman.

A Lebanese club manager testified that he spotted M.F. punching F.B. while pulling him outside the club.

Tuesday’s ruling remains subject to appeal within 15 days.