Four years and deportation for previously deported criminal in Fujairah

Fujairah: An Iranian man was sentenced to four years and three months in prison, to be followed by deportation, by the Fujairah Appeal Court for a string of drug and immigration offences.

A.S.A. lodged the appeal after a lower court found him guilty of 11 charges, ranging from possessing drugs to re-entering the country illegally after being previously deported for drug and sexual assault offences.

The suspect was apprehended by an anti-drug police unit from Dibba Al Fujairah, near the border area with the Omani territory of Dibba Al Bay'a.

Police found in his possession a quantity of illegal pills and other drugs and the suspect was escorted to Dibba Hospital for a urine test, which later turned up traces of a banned substance.

A.S.A. claimed to have taken the drug when he was in his home country and that the pills in his possession were for medical use.

The Fujairah Appeal Court did not believe the suspect's claims and upheld the earlier conviction by the Fujairah Criminal Court.