Dubai: A retiree, who threatened to burn his two daughters if they tried to enter his villa shortly after he kicked them out, has been sentenced to three months in jail

The two sisters, who do not have personal identification papers, were inside the villa when their 57-year-old Iranian father came in and kicked them out in April. Then he locked the door from inside and threatened his daughters verbally that he would burn them if they re-entered the place.

The sisters complained to the police, who summoned the father for questioning.

The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the 57-year-old accused of threatening to kill his daughters.

According to the primary judgement, the accused will be deported following the completion of his punishment.

The presiding judge also dismissed the sisters’ civil lawsuit against their father [defendant], who had pleaded not guilty.

“This is a fabricated case. The two claimants are my daughters. I brought them up and educated them and this is how they repay me! They are the ones who tricked me and cheated me before they misappropriated from me Dh800,000,” the defendant contended in court.

The elder sister testified that her father kicked her and her sister out of the house in Oud Al Muteena.

“I had just returned home along with my sister when my father threw us out of the residence, locked the main entrance and then shouted from behind the door ‘I will burn you if you come into the house’,” she said.

The younger daughter confirmed her sister’s statement.

When he defended himself in court, the accused argued that the mother is the one who incited them to lodge a complaint.

“She encouraged them to lodge this unfounded case against me. I am their father and I am the one responsible for them … I cannot imagine how would they do such a thing or treat me like this after all these years! They recorded my voice without obtaining prosecutors’ permission to do so. They swindled and defrauded me and I covered up for them because they are my daughters. They are my eyes,” the defendant argued.

The primary ruling remains subject to appeal within 13 days.