Dubai: A jobless man has been jailed for two years for luring a college student to his car, driving to a desert area, filming him naked and attempting to rape him.
The 25-year-old Emirati man and four of his friends met the 19-year-old Emirati student near a billiard centre in April 2016.
The defendant invited the student to join him for a car ride, and drove with him and his friends to a remote area in the desert.
The man and his friends ganged up against the student, beat him up and pinned him down to the ground. The 25-year-old then tried to force himself on the student after he refused to allow the group to have consensual sex with him.
The 25-year-old man filmed the student partly nude before the latter fought his assailants and foiled their bid to rape him.
On Thursday, the Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the 25-year-old accused of kidnapping the 19-year-old, beating him, molesting and trying to rape him and stealing his car, phone and wallet.
The defendant pleaded not guilty in court.
Police are still searching for the remaining suspects, said records.
The accused and the runaways tricked the student when they lured him into the car, beat him repeatedly and when he refused to allow them to have sex with him, they undressed him.
They breached his modesty when they filmed him naked and tried to rape him. They also stole his wallet.
The 19-year-old testified that the incident happened as he was entering a billiard centre in Abu Hail area.
“The defendant and his friends offered me a car ride and I joined them. They drove to a desert area … suddenly everybody started beating me. They asked me to have sex with them, but I refused. I was beaten and my shorts was removed. When the 25-year-old tried to rape while his friends had me pinned down to the ground, I resisted them. They beat me again. Then they walked me to the main road and I was driven home by one of the suspects’ friends,” he claimed to prosecutors.
The student’s father said he reported the matter to the police when his son disclosed to him what had happened.
Thursday’s ruling remains subject to appeal within 15 days.
