UAE | Crime
Man cleared of threatening wife with gun
A 27-year-old man has been acquitted of forcing his wife to sign a confession at gunpoint admitting that she was not a virgin before their marriage.
- By Bassam Za'za', Staff Reporter
- Published: 00:00 February 21, 2007
Dubai: A 27-year-old man has been acquitted of forcing his wife to sign a confession at gunpoint admitting that she was not a virgin before their marriage.
The Dubai Court of First Instance cleared the UAE national of threatening his 22-year-old compatriot wife with a pistol and forcing her to sign the confession due to lack of evidence.
The court also acquitted the employee's 52-year-old Egyptian advocate of aiding and abetting a crime due to insufficient evidence.
The Public Prosecution had charged the 27-year-old with threatening his wife and calling her an indecent woman. The Egyptian advocate was charged with aiding and abetting the accused because he was present at the time of the incident.
"The wife wrote her confession willingly and our client did not threaten her. She even admitted in front of a police captain that she lost her virginity after sleeping with her relative four or five years before getting married to our client," said the employee's lawyer Khalifa Al Salman, of Salim Al Sha'ali and Co Advocates and Legal Consultants.
The wife also promised to preserve our client's rights and wrote the confession, said Al Salman. The suspect did not malign his wife "because she admitted losing her virginity," said the lawyer.
In her statement to the public prosecution, the woman claimed that one day her husband called her "an indecent woman."
The next day he brought his legal advisor who dictated her confession, which she was then forced to sign at gunpoint.
The initial verdict is still subject to appeal.
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