UAE | Crime
'Genie man' jailed for threatening woman
A driver has been jailed for threatening to drive a woman crazy with the help of genies and to send her corpse back home in a body bag if she refused to marry him.
- By Bassam Za' za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 23:35 January 5, 2009
Dubai: A driver has been jailed for threatening to drive a woman crazy with the help of genies and to send her corpse back home in a body bag if she refused to marry him.
Records said the 31-year-old Tunisian woman claimed that the 47-year-old Syrian convict terrorised her and threatened to summon genies, whom he said will "intimidate her to madness before killing her and sending her to her hometown as a corpse if she didn't marry him".
The accused, M.S., will spend three months behind prison bars before being deported, as declared by the Dubai Court of First Instance recently.
Public Prosecution records show that M.S. appealed the initial verdict on the last day of 2008.
He was charged with threatening to kill the woman, breaching her privacy and modesty in a public place and abusing a telecommunication system, etisalat services, by repeatedly phoning her.
"I am innocent and nothing of those claims happened," M.S. told the judge when he appeared in court.
"I knew the accused very briefly... then he repeatedly annoyed and asked to marry me but I kept on refusing.
"He followed me everywhere; to my home, my work and everywhere I went I saw him. He also phoned several of my friends and claimed to be my husband. I surprisingly found him in my flat a number of times," testified the Tunisian.
The complainant claimed that she informed the police to order him to stop stalking her.
"Police summoned me later and questioned me after he reportedly claimed that we had consensual sex together," stated the woman.
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