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Dubai court sentences husband to three months in jail for hitting and threatening wife
A Briton has been sentenced to three months in jail for threatening to smash his wife's head against the wall.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 15:32 September 23, 2008
Dubai: A Briton has been sentenced to three months in jail for threatening to smash his wife's head against the wall.
"You will leave the house within 20 minutes and if you ever come near my son I will keep smashing your head against the wall until you die ... I will bang your head against the bed until your bones crack," testified the British wife, quoting her husband in her statement to the Public Prosecution.
The Dubai Court of First Instance on Tuesday sentenced the 38-year-old husband to three months in prison.
A Filipina housemaid told the interrogators that she saw her sponsor (the wife) leave the house wearing a blood-stained bathrobe after the fight.
"Yes I fought with my wife ... but I didn't threaten her," the accused told Presiding Judge Saeed Salem Bin Sarm at the Dubai Court of First Instance during an earlier hearing.
The Public Prosecution charged the husband with causing his wife five per cent permanent disability. He was also charged with threatening to kill her.
The 43-year-old wife claimed that her husband beat and cursed her when he was drunk. "He beat and kicked me then banged my head on the floor repeatedly... he kept on beating me with a wooden stick until it broke. He switched off the air-conditioner and smoked a cigarette before he threatened me," she testified.
The Filipina housemaid said: "I woke up about 4am, the lady of the house was crying and her husband was yelling. I heard him threatening her. I saw her leaving in her blood-stained bathrobe."
The accused confessed to slapping and beating his wife with a stick in addition to throwing objects at her.
The ruling is subject to appeal.
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