Dubai worker accuses suspect of trespass, rape attempt

Dubai: A housemaid ran out of her room half naked and locked up a man inside after he attempted to rape her following which she bit his hand and cut loose.

The 25-year-old Filipina housemaid claimed to prosecutors that she foiled the 30-year-old Indian worker’s attempt to rape her after she bit his right hand and locked him inside her bedroom.

Prosecutors accused 30-year-old F.H. of chasing the housemaid to the bedroom where he hugged and kissed her then removed her clothes and pinned her down to the floor trying to rape her.

It was said that the Filipina bit him and then she grabbed the door keys from the table and locked him inside. The defendant was additionally charged with trespassing into the villa that is owned by the housemaid’s sponsor.

“No. I did not trespass into the villa. Actually she is the one who invited me in…I am not guilty,” argued F.H. when he defended himself before the Dubai Court of First Instance.

According to the accusation sheet, prosecutors said the defendant entered the Emirati sponsor’s villa without permission then he ripped off the woman’s clothes and tried to rape her. But he failed to do so because she resisted him and defended herself ferociously.

The housemaid testified that she was in the laundry room when the defendant walked in behind her at around 8:30am.

“I panicked and ran to my bedroom. He followed me inside… he hugged me from the back and kissed me. He forcibly removed my lower dress and threw me on the ground… and he prevented me from calling my sponsor. When he tried to rape me, I bit his hand and ran out. I locked him in the bedroom and ran to the garage to see if my sponsor had returned. I didn’t find the car. F.H. ran away from the window. When my sponsor’s wife came home, I told her what happened,” claimed the victim.

The Emirati sponsor said his wife informed him over the phone that the worker tried to rape their housemaid. Police came and arrested F.H., who worked in an adjacent villa under construction.

The court will appoint a lawyer to defend F.H. when it reconvenes on July 1.