Dubai: A dentist was fined and handed a suspended imprisonment for drinking and beating and cursing two paramedics, who were treating his passed out woman friend in a pub.

An ambulance car was said to have been called to attend to a woman, who had passed out consuming liquor at a pub in Dubai Marina in October.

The ambulance was dispatched to the pub and two Filipino paramedics entered the pub, according to records, to attend to the medical situation.

Once they reached the woman, the paramedics saw the South African performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on his friend and when they tried to move him away because he was drunk, the dentist assaulted them. The dentist was also believed to have cursed one of the paramedics.

Police apprehended the dentist shortly after being summoned to the location.

Prosecutors charged the South African suspect of drinking, beating two paramedics and cursing them while attending their medical duties.

The South African pleaded not guilty and denied the charges of beating and cursing the paramedics when he appeared before the Dubai Misdemeanours Court.

However, he admitted that he consumed liquor.

Citing grounds of leniency, the presiding judge handed the defendant a one-month suspended imprisonment for beating and cursing.

He was also fined Dh1,000.

When questioned by the police, the defendant claimed that his friend informed him that his woman friend had passed out in the pub’s rest room.

“I went to check on her … when I was performing first aid on her, paramedics came and asked me to leave her. Therefore, I did. Then they refused to allow me to accompany them in the ambulance car to the hospital … then I was taken to the police station. I did not assault or curse the paramedics,” he said.

A Filipina paramedic told the police that the woman had passed out due to too much liquor.

“When I checked her, she was in a normal condition but drunk … then while we were moving her to the ambulance, someone [defendant] stepped in and claimed to be a doctor. He started performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation [CPR] although she did not require so as she was in a normal state. I told him to stop and warned him that it was risky to perform on her CPR … he cursed me and beat me,” she said.

Her countryman paramedic confirmed her statement and said the defendant beat him as well.

The ruling became final.