Dubai: A jobless man, who kidnapped a housewife, forced her into his car and threatened to kill her before he raped her, has been jailed for three years.
The 40-year-old Emirati housewife was in a car with her countryman with whom she had just been friends through Snapchat two weeks before the incident.
When the Emirati friend reached Al Twar area, the 36-year-old jobless man, from Comoros Islands, stopped them, took the friend aside and chatted with him while the housewife waited in the car in December.
Then the 36-year-old defendant pulled the woman out of the car, forced her into his own vehicle and drove off to another area.
The 36-year-old asked the woman for sex but when she refused, he turned violent with her and raped her.
He threatened to kill her if she did not surrender herself to him.
After he finished raping her, the defendant dropped the housewife back to her own car.
She returned to her house shortly after sunrise and told her brothers what had happened. The brothers reported the matter to the police at 7am.
The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the accused of kidnap, assault and rape although he had pleaded not guilty.
According to Monday’s ruling, presiding judge Urfan Omar said the defendant will be deported and referred the victim’s civil lawsuit to the Dubai Civil Court.
The housewife said the incident occurred two weeks after her countrywoman had introduced her to an Emirati male friend.
“We chatted on Snapchat for a while and then we exchanged numbers and used to communicate. On the night when the incident happened, my friend called me up at 3.30am and said he wanted to see me ... I parked my car in Al Twar area and he came and picked me up. He drove for a bit and then parked in front of a house, which he claimed to be the defendant’s residence. The 36-year-old then came, forced me out of my friend’s car and into his vehicle. He drove away, and stopped near a house. When I refused to have sex with him, he beat me hard and banged my head on the car window. Then he threatened to kill me before he removed my dress and raped me. After he finished, he asked me to dress up and drove towards Al Mamzar area where he called someone who brought him liquor. I refused to drink when he asked me to do so ... then he asked me why I had consumed alcohol with the Emirati friend and not with him. Then he dropped me back to my car. I informed my brothers what had happened and then we reported the police,” she claimed to prosecutors.
A police lieutenant testified that the accused said he only drove the car with the housewife for two hours and nothing happened.
“After he was summoned for questioning, the 36-year-old alleged that she begged him not to expose her in front of her brothers after he had seen her in the car with the Emirati friend after midnight. He claimed that they only drove around,” said the lieutenant.
The primary judgement remains subject to appeal within 15 days.
