UAE | Crime
Forensic doctor says suspect took legal medication
A forensic doctor confirmed that the Tebacon drug, which was found in a drug suspect's urine test, resulted from consuming a legal medicine, heard a court yesterday.
- By Bassam Za'za', Staff Reporter
- Published: 00:00 April 18, 2007
Dubai: A forensic doctor confirmed that the Tebacon drug, which was found in a drug suspect's urine test, resulted from consuming a legal medicine, heard a court yesterday.
"The Tebacon drug which was found in the suspect's urine sample results from Actifed medicine which he was prescribed to use for treatment," the doctor who wrote the forensic medicine report testified before the Dubai Court of First Instance.
The Public Prosecution had charged the 32-year-old UAE national, S.M., with consuming Tebacon and his 35-year-old Russian female friend, M.K., of using morphine, codeine and Venoparpital. They denied their charges and are pleading innocent.
The Emirati told court earlier that a policeman shot four bullets at his vehicle while he was being chased.
"I have a medical prescription which allows me to use the drug. Besides, a policeman endangered my life and opened fire at my vehicle," claimed S.M. Court records show that the Dubai Police Operations Room received a report that S.M.'s four-wheel drive was shot at four times during a car chase.
Two police cars chased the national when they noticed his vehicle in Deira. Four policemen tried to stop him at a red signal, but he drove off quickly in the opposite direction.
A policeman fired two bullets from his pistol at the vehicle, but the suspect continued to Al Hamriya. The chase resumed and the national drove on another street in the opposite direction. The same policeman fired two more bullets and hit the front and back tyres.
Police records, state that S.M. was obliged to stop his four-wheel drive before the tyres burst. M.K. was with him in the car.
Four policemen tried to stop him at a red signal, but he drove off quickly in the opposite direction.
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