UAE | Crime
Student jailed for feigning rescue fight
A student has been jailed for tricking a 19-year-old boy and pretending to fight five suspects, currently jailed for abducting and having forceful sex with the boy.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 00:30 February 29, 2008
Dubai: A student has been jailed for tricking a 19-year-old boy and pretending to fight five suspects, currently jailed for abducting and having forceful sex with the boy.
The Dubai Court of First Instance sentenced the 22-year-old Emirati college student, M.H., to 10 years in jail.
The Public Prosecution charged the accused with aiding and abetting with his five compatriot convicts the kidnapping of their 19-year-old compatriot victim, A.J, and keeping him in a remote farm where two of them molested and had forceful sex with him.
M.H. was charged with staging the fight with the convicts, pretending to save A.J. and promising to take vengeance after asking the victim not to report the acts to the police.
At knifepoint
The five convicts, aged between 20 and 25, are currently serving different jail terms. The Dubai Court of First Instance found them guilty of forcing A.J. into their car, threatening him and illegally detaining him at the farm where two of them forced him to have sex with them at knifepoint.
A.J. testified: "M.H. is a crime accomplice. I saw his face covered with a peculiar ghutra when he was watching the others abuse me from a nearby window. Though I hardly know M.H., I was astonished when he phoned me on the cell phone of one of the convicts and said he was coming to save me. Later he arrived and pretended to be fighting with them to save me."
The 19-year-old victim said in his statement to the public prosecution: "When I remembered the clothes he wore, I realised that he aided and abetted the crime."
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