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Man denies threat to kill woman refusing marriage
A driver has denied that he threatened to kill a woman with the help of genies and send her home in a body bag if she refused to marry him.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 00:23 November 4, 2008
Dubai: A driver has denied that he threatened to kill a woman with the help of genies and send her home in a body bag if she refused to marry him.
The 31-year-old Tunisian woman claimed that the 47-year-old Syrian suspect threatened to bring up genies whom he said will "drive her crazy before killing her and sending her to her hometown a dead body if she didn't marry him", according to records.
The Public Prosecution charged the driver, M.S., with threatening to kill the woman, breaching her privacy and modesty in a public place and abusing etisalat services by repeatedly phoning her.
"I am innocent and nothing of those claims happened," the suspect told Presiding Judge Fahmi Mounir when he appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Monday.
"I knew the suspect 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.
Her Moroccan flatmate testified: "At another incident he chased her in a mall and said he will have the genies destroy her."
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