Dubai: An employee has been convicted of molesting a drunken woman in an elevator and abusing her verbally.

The 30-year-old Egyptian employee walked into the elevator behind the Canadian woman in the building where she lives in Al Barsha in May.

The woman pressed the button to go to 62nd floor and the Egyptian for 64th floor before he talked to her and molested her.

The Egyptian used abusive language when he told the woman that she has a huge figure that requires two men to please her.

The woman called the police and the man was found entering the building three days later. When he was asked about the woman’s molestation claims, the Egyptian said that the woman was his friend and he used to chat with her on WhatsApp.

When he failed to provide the woman’s contact details to the investigating policeman and to show him the WhatsApp conversation, he was apprehended.

On Sunday, the Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the defendant of molesting the woman and abusing her verbally.

The accused had pleaded not guilty.

Presiding judge Mohammad Jamal handed the defendant a three-month suspended imprisonment after the Canadian woman waived her complaint.

However, the accused will be deported.

The defendant hugged the woman against her will, molested her and breached her modesty verbally by telling her that she needed two men to please her.

The defendant’s lawyer argued in court that his client did not molest or abuse the victim.

“When they met in the lift, she greeted him and hugged him. He did not molest her or abuse her verbally. She was incited by one of the building’s managers to lodge this malicious complaint because that manager had a previous dispute with my client. The manager told the Canadian woman that my client had earlier molested a female resident … and that my client might molest her as well. He persuaded her to file a complain that she was under the risk of being molested.

“She later waived her complaint and wrote a clear confession that she had been encouraged by the manager to lodge a complaint against my client,” argued the lawyer.

Court records said the victim was fined Dh2,000 for consuming alcohol.

The woman testified that the accused pretended to have been depressed and started to talk with her before he molested her.

“He seemed drunk and pretended to be sad … he claimed that he needed someone to hug him. When I patted his shoulder, he hugged and molested me. He also told me I had a huge figure and that I needed two men to please me,” she said.

The primary ruling remains subject to appeal within 15 days.