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Policeman cleared of kidnap but charged with rape
A court has acquitted a policeman of kidnapping a woman but jailed him for a year for having sex with her. He was also charged with rape.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 00:03 May 13, 2008
Dubai: A court has acquitted a policeman of kidnapping a woman but jailed him for a year for having sex with her. He was also charged with rape.
The Dubai Court of First Instance said the 23-year-old Emirati woman willingly got into the 24-year-old Emirati policeman's car because she wanted him to erase her pictures which she had sent to his mobile phone.
The court sentenced him to one year in jail for having sex with her in a desert area.
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The policeman pleaded not guilty to kidnapping the 23-year-old woman and raping her in Al Aweer.
The Public Prosecution charged the policeman with luring the woman into his car, undressing and having sex with her against her will before dropping her off in the Mirdiff area. He was additionally charged with threatening her with a knife when she tried to escape.
"My client didn't kidnap or rape the girl but she was the one who consensually jumped into his car. She asked him to drive her to an uninhabited place where she agreed to have sex," said defence lawyer Obaid Ali Obaid, of Al Sabhan Group of Advocates and Legal Consultants.
The woman claimed that her pictures were on the suspect's mobile phone because there was talk of them getting married.
She testified: "He started calling me after he got my contact number from someone who had earlier passed me his own number. I forwarded him my photo to show it to his parents. Later I asked him to delete the photo... One day he picked me up from work to tell me something important and delete the picture. He forced himself on me. He beat me and I bled after the rape."
She reported him to the police after he avoided her.
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