Dubai: A manager was jailed for a year for assaulting two policemen who apprehended him for exposing his private parts before two sisters in a building’s corridor and cursed them while intoxicated.
The two sisters were going home on the third floor of the building where they live when their 38-year-old Ugandan neighbour, the manager, came out of his flat in September 2016. Once he spotted the sisters, the drunk neighbour unzipped his pants and flashed his private parts before he cursed them and called them bad names. The accused was heavily drunk when the sisters called the police and he turned physically violent with them.
The accused flashed his middle finger in the face of the two policemen, who restrained and took him into custody.
On Tuesday, the Dubai Court of First Instance jailed the defendant for a year for assaulting the policeman and ripping off the uniform of one of them.
Citing jurisdictional purposes, presiding judge Mohammad Jamal referred the defendant to the Dubai Misdemeanours Court to be tried for drinking, breaching the sisters’ modesty and cursing them, and flashing his middle finger.
The accused pleaded not guilty when he appeared in court.
He contended before presiding judge Jamal that he was asleep and that the policemen had caught him in a chokehold as he lay in bed. He argued he was only trying to free himself as the two officers held him by the neck and he didn’t know if he hit them in the process or tore their outfits.
One of the policemen said they went to apprehend the defendant after they were informed about a fight in a building in Tecom area.
“We rushed to the building where two sisters had reported to police that the suspect was drunk when he flashed his private parts before them; the sisters also complained that the Ugandan cursed them. We headed to the suspect’s flat and we discovered that he was drunk. I saw him suddenly assaulting my partner who was interrogating him about his actions in front of the sisters. He also pushed my partner and kicked him … he also assaulted me when I tried to restrain him and he grabbed me by my neck,” the officer said.
The other policeman confirmed his colleague’s statement.
Tuesday’s ruling remains subject to appeal.
