Dubai: A worker has been accused of kissing a pharmacist at knifepoint while he was drunk.
The 39-year-old Pakistani worker, M.R., was said to have walked behind the 37-year-old Filipina pharmacist in Satwa before he forced her to kiss him at knifepoint in January.
Prosecutors accused the defendant of getting drunk and molesting the woman.
The suspect failed to show up before the Dubai Court of First Instance and enter a plea.
According to the charge sheet, prosecutors said the suspect abused the fact that the woman was in an empty street before he pulled her by the hair behind one of the cars parked beside the pavement. Then he pointed a knife in her face and forced her to kiss him.
The Filipina injured her palm when she tried to push the knife away. The pharmacist told prosecutors that the defendant walked behind her for a while before he stopped her.
“He pointed the knife … I got scared. Then he grabbed my hair and pulled me towards the pavement where he stopped me behind a car. He asked me to kiss him … I refused. Then he forced himself on me and kissed me against my will. When I tried to remove the knife he pulled his hand away quickly and ran away. He injured my hand … then I called the police immediately,” she claimed.
A police corporal testified to prosecutors that he and his colleague were patrolling in Satwa when the incident was reported to them from Dubai Police’s Operations Room.
“We found the Filipina in the street and she pointed her fingers in the direction in which the suspect had run away. We spotted the defendant hiding in one of the dark alleys … we ran towards him. We chased him for a while between the alleys and I noticed him throwing something from his hand. It was the knife he had used to frighten the woman. We apprehended him shortly after that. When I questioned him, he confessed that he pulled her by her hair and forced her to kiss him. The defendant claimed that when she tried to move the knife away from him, she injured her hand,” claimed the corporal.
The presiding judge adjourned the case until the suspect is legally notified about the next hearing on July 26.
