Dubai: An administrative officer has been accused of threatening to kill a divorced woman whom he befriended if she did not drop her police complaint against him.
The 35-year-old Egyptian officer, A.M., was said to have verbally threatened to kill the American woman and her children and shame her after she refused to remain his friend in May. Prosecutors accused A.M. of threatening the woman and also threatening her boss at work.
“That did not happen,” argued the suspect when he entered a not guilty plea before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Sunday.
According to the charge sheet, prosecutors said the suspect called up the woman’s boss, an Egyptian, and told him that the woman would lose her children and her life would become hell if she did not drop her complaint against him.
He also threatened to dishonour the American woman in public.
The woman claimed to prosecutors that A.M. threatened her verbally several times after she asked him to stay away from her.
“I knew the suspect through his job at a local bank. We became friends once he knew that I was having marital problems and that I was getting a divorce. He befriended me in the beginning once he knew about my divorce. Then one day he said we were meant for each other … I started backing out gradually. I asked him to leave me. But then he started stalking me and chasing me to work and in public. He called me a lot, but I tried to ignore him. He called me from unknown numbers more than 10 times a day. Then I complained to the police. Thereafter he threatened to kill me and my children and to ruin my life if I did not waive my complaint,” claimed the American.
Meanwhile, the woman’s boss told prosecutors: “I was in my office when the defendant called on my mobile phone and threatened the woman and her children. He wanted her to drop her complaint. I discovered later that she had decided to stop being his friend.”
The suspect’s lawyer asked to hear the woman’s statement when the court reconvenes next month.
