Dubai: An off-duty policeman has been accused of luring a woman to his car and then driving to an uninhabited villa where she claimed he raped her using physical force.
The 28-year-old policeman, S.N., was said to have stopped the Filipina on a street and asked her for her personal identification. Then he took her with him in his car to the villa where he had forced sex with her in September.
“That is absolutely not true… I did not do that,” the defendant, who is in custody, argued before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Thursday.
According to the charge sheet, prosecutors said the suspect abused the fact that the woman was alone with him at the villa where he beat her and then raped her. He was also charged with carrying out certain law enforcement procedures when he was not officially tasked or commissioned to do so.
The suspect strongly refuted his charges when he entered his plea before presiding judge Ezzat Abdul Lat in court.
Prosecution records said the defendant was arrested in October for being involved in a separate case.
A police officer testified to prosecutors that the Filipina claimed that the suspect asked her for identification when he stopped her on the street.
“During questioning, she alleged that the suspect stopped her in the street after posing as a policeman… then he asked her to show her personal identification papers. After she did so, the woman claimed, that she trusted the policeman [who was off duty at the time of the incident] and rode with him. Then the suspect reportedly drove to the villa where the woman claimed that he turned physically violent and raped her,” the officer claimed.
Dubai Police’s forensic examination report confirmed that the traces of DNA and semen on the woman’s body and clothes matched those of S.N.
Records said the Dubai Misdemeanours Court jailed S.N. for three months on Wednesday for threatening, cursing and causing offence to another woman and disrespecting her in public.
During Thursday’s hearing, the defendant told Presiding judge Abdul Lat that he joined Dubai Police four months ago and that he had an excellent behaviour certificate during his training.
He asked the court for bail, but the judge asked him to lodge an official request through his lawyer.
The trial continues.