Dubai: A jobless Emirati has been jailed for three years for deceivingly entering his compatriot girl's bedroom and sexually abusing her, ruled a court on Tuesday.

The Dubai Court of First Instance jailed the 27-year-old accused, A.J., for an additional month for attempting suicide by drinking a cleaning detergent at a police station.

Prosecutors said the accused tried to end his life after his arrest for trespassing into the girl's bedroom and abusing her.

Upon pronouncing Tuesday's judgement, Presiding Judge Al Saeed Mohammad Barghout said the accused was jailed for three years for trespassing and molestation and one month for attempted suicide.

When the convict appeared in court earlier, he strongly denied the three charges against him.

Threatened

According to the charge sheet, prosecutors accused the Emirati of molesting his compatriot in her bedroom after he threatened to show indecent pictures of her to her mother if she did not allow him inside the villa.

Public Prosecution records said paramedics foiled the attempt of A.J. to kill himself when he drank cleaning detergent inside the police station after he was captured.

"I didn't have any intention of killing myself ... after a number of policemen beat me hard, the officer refused to send me to a hospital.

"I drank the detergent because I needed to be taken to hospital to obtain a medical report," the convict argued before Presiding Judge Barghout when he defended himself.

The defendant dismissed the charge of trespassing into the girl's bedroom and molesting her.

Prosecutors charged him with molesting the girl by kissing her on the neck and groping her.

Accused

The Emirati girl testified that the accused phoned her at college and asked to meet her because he wanted to give her back her photograph.

"Initially, I didn't believe him. Then he forwarded the picture to my mobile phone. When I called him back, he said he liked me and wanted to talk to me… but I hung up.

"Dubai Police's Al Ameen service asked me to lodge a complaint at the police station. I didn't do so out of shame. He stalked and harassed me a number of times wanting to see me."

The girl told prosecutors that one day the suspect phoned her and told her that he would show the picture to her mother if she didn't let him in.

The girl claimed in her statement to prosecutors that she allowed him into her bedroom through the window because he was standing outside the door of the family's house. She said he molested her on her bed.

An Emirati first policeman testified: "She alleged that he knocked at her window and she was forced to let him in to avoid embarrassment. She said he molested her after she refused to sleep with him. Then he left the same way he came."

The primary judgment is still subject to appeal within 15 days.