Dubai: A co-pilot has been accused of threatening to kill a saleswoman over the phone, who purported that he impregnated her after reportedly having her raped after a dinner party.
The 23-year-old Emirati suspect was said to have threatened the 29-year-old Tunisian saleswoman over the phone that he would kill her if she ever called him again in June 2014. Prosecutors charged the suspect with threatening the woman over the phone.
The defendant entered a guilty plea when he showed up before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Sunday.
His lawyer asked the court to adjourn the case until he reviews the file and prepares a defence.
The Tunisian woman testified to prosecutors that the incident happened after she got acquainted with the suspect over WhatsApp.
“We dated for a while and then I invited him over to a dinner party at my residence along with other friends. He arrived first. When I went to my room to get something, he walked in behind me and said that he liked me. Then he pinned me down to the floor and had sex with me. I cried a lot and felt bad… he promised to rectify what he did and he promised to marry me. Later on he constantly neglected me and didn’t answer my calls or attend to my messages especially after I informed him that he had impregnated me. I tried to reach him on his phone, but he texted me a message in which he threatened to end my life if I kept on pursuing him. Afterwards, he came to my flat and beat me and pushed me down to the floor… my neighbour called an ambulance and I was rushed to hospital,” the woman claimed to prosecutors.
The woman also alleged in her prosecution statement that when the medical situation worsened, she went to a hospital where she was allegedly told that her embryo was dead.
She alleged that the suspect’s friends took her by car, drugged her and left her partly undressed in the desert where she had pain in her lower private parts.
Meanwhile, a forensic examiner was cited telling prosecutors that the saleswoman was still a virgin.
“According to her medical and physical check up, there were insufficient evidence or signs to establish whether she had been pregnant and carried out a recent abortion or not,” testified the examiner.
The co-pilot was quoted as telling prosecutors that he sent her an SMS in which he threatened to kill her if she continued contacting him. According to prosecution records, the Emirati suspect alleged that the woman’s persistence angered him and that he texted her to make her stop. Available records did not mention whether the woman lodged a rape complaint or not. The trial continues.
