Executive jailed for threatening mother of his love

Dubai: An executive was sentenced to three months in jail for verbally threatening the mother of a woman he loved saying that he would dishonour the daughter if she wasn’t allowed to be his wife.

The 24-year-old Syrian executive, R.K., stopped the Jordanian mother in August outside of a store and threatened to make the daughter pay the price if the mother insisted on their not getting married.

The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted R.K. of verbally threatening to harm the daughter and ruin her reputation.

The accused had pleaded innocent and refuted the accusation of threatening the mother verbally.

Court records said the defendant threatened the mother, saying that he would dishonour the daughter if the mother refused to consent to their marriage.

The Jordanian mother testified that she and her daughter had lodged numerous complaints against the defendant.

“We had earlier refused to allow him to get engaged to our daughter … since then he constantly caused us trouble. He threatened my daughter and son in previous incidents and we complained several times at the police station. Police made him sign a number of undertakings in which he promised not to harass or threaten any of us again. On the day of the incident, I left the grocery and was heading home. He saw me and told me ‘I swear by God that your daughter’s honour will be the price that she would pay for that’. I believe that he meant that he would rape my girl,” said the mother.

The Syrian told prosecutors that he signed two undertakings at the police station in which he promised not to harass the daughter or threaten her again.

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