Dubai: A masseur has been jailed for six months for assaulting two policemen and breaking the little finger of one of them when they tried to apprehend him for offering massages to pedestrians.
The 20-year-old Vietnamese masseur, V.J., assaulted the policemen and resisted when they tried to restrain him while offering massages to clients in November 2014.
The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted V.J. of resisting arrest and assaulting two officers and causing permanent disability to one of them.
The defendant pleaded not guilty.
The accused ferociously resisted arrest and assaulted the policemen, one of whom was left with a 2 per cent permanent disability in his little finger, said records.
The injured policeman testified that the incident happened while he and his partner were patrolling a street in Bur Dubai.
“We spotted the defendant and another person stopping pedestrians and inviting them to go for a massage to a spa. We approached the two people and identified ourselves as policemen … then we asked them to escort us. One of them ran away. I chased him for a while but I did not catch him. When I turned back towards my partner, I saw him wrestling with V.J. and trying to handcuff him. The Vietnamese was resisting arrest ferociously … I rushed to help my partner, but V.J. attacked me as well. We fell on the ground and my little finger got fractured,” he testified to prosecutors.
Dubai police’s forensic doctors confirmed that the assaulted policeman sustained a permanent disability in his little finger on the right hand.
Thursday’s ruling remains subject to appeal within 15 days.
