UAE | Crime
'My husband beat me with a stick'
A Briton is standing trial for threatening to smash his wife's head against the wall until "she was dead" if she ever came near their son or did not leave the family home immediately.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 00:17 April 23, 2008
Dubai: A Briton is standing trial for threatening to smash his wife's head against the wall until "she was dead" if she ever came near their son or did not leave the family home immediately.
Records said a Filipina maid claimed she saw her sponsor leave the house wearing just a blood-stained bathrobe after the fight.
"You will leave the house within 20 minutes and if you ever come near my son I will keep smashing your head against the wall until you die... I will bang your head against the bed until your bones crack," testified the British wife quoting her husband in her statement to the Public Prosecution.
"Yes I had a fight with my wife... I didn't threaten her," the 38-year-old Briton told Presiding Judge Saeed Salem Bin Sarm at the Dubai Court of First Instance on Tuesday.
He was charged with giving his wife a five per cent permanent disability. He was also charged with threatening to kill her. The Briton, who is on bail, pleaded not guilty to threatening his wife.
His wife claimed he beat and cursed her when he was drunk.
"He beat and kicked me then banged my head on the floor repeatedly... he kept on beating me with a wooden stick until it broke. He switched of the air-conditioning and smoked a cigarette before he threatened me," the 43-year-old said.
The maid said: "I woke up about 4am, the lady of the house was crying and her husband was yelling. I heard him threatening her. I saw her leaving in her blood-stained bathrobe."
The Briton confessed to slapping and beating his wife with a stick in addition to throwing objects at her.
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