Dubai: A driver, who secretly filmed two honeymooners having sex in his limousine’s tinted cabin while driving them around the city before he blackmailed them, has been jailed for two years.
The Indian newly-weds were spending a four-day honeymoon in Dubai when the 28-year-old Pakistani limousine driver, M.S., secretly filmed them while they had sex in his vehicle in February.
Shortly after he dropped them off, M.S. sent the Indian husband a small clip of him in an intimate position with his wife in the limousine on WhatsApp and asked him to pay Dh2,000. He threatened to upload the clip on social media if the man failed to pay.
The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted M.S. of molesting the couple and breaching their privacy, blackmailing them and abusing the telecommunication system.
The defendant was apprehended after the husband cooperated with Dubai Police and lured M.S. to the honeymooner’s hotel where he was arrested.
M.S. pleaded guilty.
“The defendant’s mobile phone will be confiscated and the content of the film will be deleted. The accused will be deported after serving his jail term,” said presiding judge Urfan Omar on Thursday.
The driver molested the Indian couple by secretly filming them, according to records, and dishonoured the newly-weds when he forwarded the clip to the husband. He also misused the telecommunication system and breached the couple’s privacy when he filmed them against their will.
The husband’s countryman friend testified that the incident happened when the newly-weds visited Dubai for four days.
“My friend informed me that after the driver dropped them off at Dubai Mall, the latter messaged him and demanded Dh2,000. He threatened to upload on internet a video of the couple having sex. The husband also told me that M.S. sent him on WhatsApp a short clip of what had happened in the car. I met my friend in the hotel where he stayed and then we reported the matter to the police,” he testified.
A police sergeant said the defendant was lured to the hotel to collect his money where he was caught.
M.S. admitted to prosecutors that he filmed the couple at an intersection in Zabeel area.
Thursday’s judgement remains subject to appeal within 15 days.
