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Official jailed for sex with saleswoman
A court has jailed a senior government official to one year in jail after it modified his rape charges to consensual sex.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 23:41 June 29, 2008
Dubai: A court has jailed a senior government official to one year in jail after it modified his rape charges to consensual sex.
The Dubai Court of First Instance found the 30-year-old Emirati official, S.S., guilty of having consensual sex with the 23-year-old European saleswoman after he denied spiking her drink with tranquiliser, undressing and raping her at a hotel party as she claimed.
The saleswoman alleged that she woke up after having been reportedly raped.
The Court dismissed her false accusations and decided that the couple had consensual sex.
The accused invited her over to a party which he threw at a hotel where records said he put drugs in her drink and raped her after she fell unconscious.
"I am not guilty... this is absolutely untrue," the accused told the court earlier.
The Public Prosecution charged him with drugging the European girl, who resides and works abroad, and raping her after she passed out. His lawyer told the judge that his client didn't rape the woman, but she accepted his invitation to a party.
"He called and invited me to attend his party at a hotel on Shaikh Zayed Road... when I went up to the room I saw a number of invitees. I only knew him. After I had a drink I fell unconscious and I woke up the first time and saw someone having sex with me over the stairways facing the room door. I tried to fight back and push that someone away but he beat me and I fell unconscious a second time. When I woke up the next time I noticed that someone undressed me and was having sex with me in bed," she claimed.
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