Dubai: A lawyer has accused a housemaid of concocting a Hollywood movie scenario to falsely accuse her client of rape.

The defendant S.S. denied the accusation that he forced himself on the 29-year-old housemaid in his villa in November after asking her to clean his military uniform.

“The housemaid has fabricated the rape allegations against my client out of malice. She concocted the alleged rape in her head based on the scripts and scenarios of American movies. She failed to produce a good movie… as shown in her inconsistent and contradicting statements before prosecutors,” the 37-year-old Emirati defendant’s lawyer argued before the Dubai Court of First Instance.

Prosecutors charged S.S. with having sex with the Filipina housemaid against her will and molesting her. Records said he handed his dress to the housemaid asking her to wash it. Shortly after she removed the military badges from the dress and put it in the washing machine, S.S. dragged her into his bedroom where he removed her clothes and had sex with her against her will.

“I didn’t have sex with her against her will,” S.S. told the court when he entered his plea.

His lawyer argued that his client did not rape the Filipina but had consensual sex with her.

“She was having an affair with him; prosecutors should have categorised this as a consensual sex case and not a rape. The housemaid’s description of what she claimed to be rape was illogical. She alleged that he pinned her down to the floor, held her arms, then removed all her clothes and he removed his [clothes] and abused her … this is a ludicrous description. Only superman is capable of doing such a thing. Her claims were unfounded as none of her clothes were cut or torn. They had consensual sex,” contended the lawyer.

The defence lawyer also provided the court with photos showing the housemaid wearing S.S’s wife’s clothes and of her sitting in his bedroom to substantiate his claims that they were having an affair.

“They had consensual sex a number of times,” he said, adding that the forensic laboratory’s report contradicted some of the housemaid’s claims. “I ask the court to clear my client of rape or to modify the rape charge to having consensual sex,” he said.

The defence lawyer also said the housemaid had tried to blackmail S.S. by asking for money to waive her accusation.

In her statement to prosecutors, the housemaid said, “The suspect came home at 3pm. When he learnt that there was nobody at home, he forced me into his bedroom where he raped me. He also had bizarre sex with me. When he finished, he went to the shower, so I locked myself in my bedroom. He apologised to me later but I asked him to leave me alone. When he left by car, I immediately ran away to the Philippines Consulate.”

After reporting the incident to police, the housemaid said she guided them to her sponsor’s residence in Oudh Al Mutainah. He was arrested.

A court ruling in the case is expected on July 21.