Dubai: A man was charged with kidnapping, raping and stealing from a Moroccan woman after posing as a police officer, a court heard on Monday.
The victim told the Dubai Public Prosecution that the 31-year-old Pakistani suspect, who was in a four-wheel drive vehicle, stopped her after she left a restaurant in Al Riqqa area around 8pm in April.
“He said he was investigating a jewellery shop robbery by a group of women in this area. I told him I did not know anything about the incident, and he told me he would show me some photos from the robbery. He showed me some photos on his pone of women’s hands that he said were from the robbery while I was still standing outside his car,” she told the prosecution.
She said the man then asked her if he could take a photo of her hand, which he claimed was to make sure it did not match the photos taken from the robbery case. The man then asked her to get into the car so he could take a photo, court papers stated.
He locked the car and held her arm when she tried to leave. The suspect drove to a residential area where he forced her to move to the back seat and raped her.
She said she screamed and attempted to run away but he grabbed her and covered her mouth with his hand. “When he was done, he made me sit in the front seat, then drove to the main road where he stopped a taxi and asked me to take it to wherever I want,” she said.
She also alleged that the man took her bag and stole her two mobile phones worth around Dh4,000, and Dh500 in cash.
When the man was arrested, police found the two stolen phones and the victim identified him from a line up three times.
