Dubai: A driver has been accused of deceiving a housemaid by posing as her sponsor, driving her from the airport and raping her in his car.

The 42-year-old Pakistani driver, N.R., was said to have claimed to the 36-year-old Indonesian maid that he was her sponsor once he saw her at Dubai International Airport.

Then he lured her to his car before he parked in a poorly lit area and raped her using coercion and threat in October.

Prosecutors accused N.R. of kidnap with deception, rape, assault and threatening to kill.

The defendant admitted that he had consensual sex with the Indonesian when he showed up before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Tuesday.

However he denied the charge of threatening to kill the maid or assaulting her.

“Did you rape her or have consensual sex with her?” presiding judge Mohammad Jamal asked the suspect.

“At first I did try to force her to have sex with me… she resisted. But when I forced her, she finally agreed after I convinced her that I would pay he. So we had paid sex,” argued N.R.

The maid testified to prosecutors that the defendant approached her at the airport where she was waiting for her sponsor to take her to Al Ain.

“The suspect walked up to me and claimed that he was my sponsor. I accompanied him to his car. He drove to a poorly lit and unpopulated area and parked. I was scared and asked him why he had parked there. Then he moved to the back seat where I was sitting and asked to have sex with me. When I refused, he threatened to kill me if I did not surrender to him. I refused again… he punched me repeatedly and forced me to have sex with him. The suspect dropped me in front of a residential complex near the airport and left. The security guard did not let me in. A man stopped when I asked to use his phone. I called my sister and told her what happened,” claimed the maid.

A police lieutenant testified to prosecutors that the woman reported the rape to the airport police.

“She had bruises all over her body and seemed to have been assaulted. The defendant was arrested shortly after that near the airport. He confessed during questioning that he had kidnapped the woman and raped her in his car in Sharjah Industrial Area,” claimed the lieutenant.

The court will appoint a lawyer to defend the suspect when it reconvenes on February 3.