Dubai: A policeman has been jailed five years for raping a woman when he was off duty.
The 28-year-old policeman, S.N., stopped the Filipina on a street and asked her for her personal identification. Then he took her with him in his car to the villa where he had forced sex with her in September 2014.
The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the accused of raping the Filipina despite having entered a not guilty plea.
According to the chargesheet, the defendant abused the fact that the woman was alone with him at the villa where he beat her and then raped her. He was also charged with carrying out certain law enforcement procedures when he was not officially commissioned to do so.
When he defended himself before presiding judge Ezzat Abdul Lat, the defendant strongly refuted the claims that he abused the Filipina physically before he had forced sex with her.
Prosecution records said the accused was arrested in October for being involved in a separate case.
A police officer said the Filipina claimed that S.N. asked her for identification when he stopped her on the street.
“During questioning, she said the defendant stopped her in the street after posing as a policeman. He asked her to show her personal identification papers. After she did so, the woman claimed that she trusted the policeman [who was off duty at the time of the incident] and rode with him. Then the suspect drove to the villa where the woman claimed he turned physically violent and raped her,” the officer claimed.
Dubai Police’s forensic examination report confirmed traces of DNA and semen on the woman’s body and clothes matched those of S.N.
In a separate case, the Dubai Misdemeanours Court sentenced S.N. to three months in jail for threatening, cursing and causing offence to another woman and disrespecting her in public.
The defendant’s lawyer however argued before the presiding judge Abdul Lat that S.N. who joined Dubai Police recently, had an excellent behaviour certificate during his training.
“My client did not assault or kidnap the woman. He did not rape her but they had consensual sex,” the lawyer argued.
Thursday’s ruling remains subject to appeal within 15 days.