Dubai: A maid, who endangered the lives of her sponsor and his family when she served them tea laced with her urine, has been jailed for three months.
The 35-year-old Indonesian maid, S.H., confessed before the Dubai Misdemeanor Court that she intentionally endangered the lives of her Emirati sponsor and his family when she contaminated the tea with her urine.
“Don’t repeat what you did. The court has granted you a lenient sentence … but don’t repeat such a crime ever,” presiding judge Ezzat Mansour told S.H. when he read out the verdict in courtroom nine.
According to Tuesday’s ruling, the defendant will be deported following the completion of her punishment.
The Emirati sponsor testified that a strange odour emanated from the tea that the defendant served them on March 4.
“I hired her five months prior to the incident. On that day, we asked her to prepare tea for us around 10pm. When she brought the tea after 30 minutes, there was a bad smell emanating from the kettle. It smelled like urine or coagulated blood. I immediately asked her if she had put anything in the tea… but she denied this although she seemed confused and afraid,” claimed the sponsor.
Prosecution records said police arrested the defendant shortly after the incident was reported.
The sponsor claimed that he suspected that S.H. had spiked the tea with a certain substance to put them under a spell.
“Nobody drank the tea when we noticed the bad odour,” claimed the Emirati.
According to her prosecution statement, the defendant denied urinating in the tea kettle but she admitted that she put a red substance that she took from another housemaid.
“I took the red substance from another housemaid. She claimed to me that my sponsor and his wife would treat me well and pay my salary in full if they drink the tea spiked with that substance. When they discovered the red substance, I told them about that substance … they got mad and reported the matter the police,” S.H. claimed to the investigating prosecutor.
Tuesday’s judgement remains subject to appeal within 15 days.
