UAE | Crime
Driver denies rape, admits to consensual sex with maid
Accused of impersonating a policeman in order to lure her to villa.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 23:00 June 2, 2009
Dubai: A driver has claimed he had consensual sex with a maid who accused him of tying her up with her bra and raping her in a deserted villa after posing as a policeman.
The 27-year-old Sri Lankan maid alleged, according to records, that the 28-year-old Pakistani suspect posed as a policeman and then lured her into his minibus and drove off to a deserted villa in Umm Suqiem where she claimed he raped her.
"That did not happen. I am not guilty and I didn't rape her. We had consensual sex," argued the suspect when he defended himself before Presiding Judge Al Saeed Mohammad Barghout at the Dubai Court of First Instance on Tuesday.
The Public Prosecution charged the suspect with kidnapping the maid, J.I., and undressing and raping her. He was also charged with impersonating a policeman and carrying out a public employee's duty when he asked the claimant to show him her identification documents.
The maid testified that the suspect stopped her in a small street and asked her for her papers when she was walking to work.
"When I told him I only had a passport's photocopy, he asked me to ride his minibus and then he slapped me twice and strangulated me. He drove until he reached an uninhabited villa ...he dragged me inside where he undressed me. Then he tied me up with my bra and raped me ... " claimed J.I. in her testimony.
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