Dubai: A student has lost his legal battle and will spend ten years behind bars for kidnapping and raping his wife-to-be.

Dubai’s highest court on Monday rejected the appeal lodged by the 25-year-old Emirati student, F.A., who was seeking a reduced jail term after insisting he had consensual sex with his 30-year-old countrywoman.

The Dubai Cassation Court’s presiding judge Mohammad Nabeel Riyadh overruled F.A.’s appeal and upheld a ten-year jail term against him.

In February, the Dubai Appeal Court reduced F.A.’s life imprisonment to ten years in jail.

The Emirati woman said F.A. lured her to visit what he described as their ‘marriage house’ before he beat her and pushed her into a bedroom where she claimed he raped her.

The woman, who prosecutors described as F.A.’s wife-to-be, said the defendant took her by surprise, and repeatedly slapped and beat her and then pushed her into a first-floor bedroom.

She said he molested her and took snapshots of her naked.

The defendant’s lawyer told the court the woman willingly visited his client’s house and went up with him to the bedroom where they had consensual sex.

The advocate asked the court to drop the charge of kidnap against his client because the claimant drove her car to the defendant’s villa and parked it inside.

Prosecutors accused F.A. of abusing his relationship with his countrywoman after he promised to marry her. Then he lured her into what he called their ‘marriage house’ before he used physical violence, forcing her into a bedroom and raping her.

Monday’s judgement is irrevocable.

The accused denied the charges of kidnap and rape.

His lawyer said that the woman agreed to go to his client’s room and stayed there from 8.30am to 4pm.

Prosecutors said the woman was said to have agreed to see the house without being aware of the defendant’s intentions.

The victim told prosecutors that she didn’t turn off her car’s engine as she did not plan to stay long.

Prosecutors said the accused dragged the woman to the first floor and made her undress before he raped her. He beat her and threatened to tear off her abaya and send her back home where her parents would ask her what had happened.