Dubai: A man, who locked a woman naked outside his flat shortly after he had consensual sex, has been jailed for six months.

The Dubai Court of First Instance sentenced the 40-year-old Emirati employee to six months in jail for having consensual sex with Uzbek woman and molesting her by locking her naked outside his flat.

The Emirati was earlier sentenced in absentia in November before he surrendered himself and requested a retrial, during which he was found guilty on Monday.

In the ruling in absentia, the court had sentenced the defendant to three years in jail for rape, molestation and assault.

However, prosecutors modified the charges, upon which, the accused was charged with breaching the woman’s modesty and molesting her by keeping her naked outside his residence and having consensual sex with her.

“I had consensual sex with her but I did not leave her naked outside my flat,” he told the court.

Shortly after the sexual interaction, the Uzbek woman was left naked outside the man’s flat.

She rushed to the neighbouring flat occupied by Russian women, who gave her clothes to cover up before she went to the police around 7pm.

The defendant was apprehended four days, after the victim had reported him, from the rooftop room where he had been hiding in Al Nahda.

He refuted the woman’s allegations.

He contended in court earlier that the door was open and she went out on her own.

The Uzbek said she knew the defendant since he had bailed her out in a criminal case that she was facing at the Naturalisation and Residency Prosecution.

“I visited his residence to discuss my criminal case. I never slept at his flat and we never kissed or had sex before. I stay with my sister in Sharjah. That day, we sat at the balcony where he had been drinking liquor. He had a heated argument with his children and sent them away, and then he yelled at me, grabbed my phone and tossed it out the window. When I tried to leave the flat, he pulled me by my hair and dragged me into the bedroom. He raped me and abused me for nearly two hours. Then he dragged me again by my hair and pushed me out of the flat where I was left outside naked,” she claimed.

A police lieutenant said the CCTV footage showed the woman arriving at the defendant’s flat and chatting with his children at the door around 4.30pm.

“The woman was also seen undressed when she was left outside. During questioning, the defendant said he had been having consensual sex with the Uzbek for a year,” the lieutenant said.

The ruling remains subject to appeal.