Dubai: A photographer has been accused of raping a nurse when he visited the woman’s residence on the pretext of discussing to share an accommodation, a court heard on Sunday.
The 51-year-old British nurse was at her room alone when she heard a knock at the door in October. The person knocking the door introduced himself as someone she knows, and the Briton opened the door but was surprised to see the 26-year-old Syrian photographer and his girlfriend, according to the records.
The Syrian entered the nurse’s room with his girlfriend to discuss sharing a villa accommodation at a cheaper rent. Following a quick discussion, the photographer spoke in Arabic to his girlfriend, who left the place.
The Syrian sat beside the Briton on her bed and made sexual advancements. Records said the man kissed and hugged the Briton and then pinned her down to her bed and raped her.
Police apprehended the photographer shortly after the British woman lodged a complaint.
Prosecutors accused the 26-year-old suspect of raping the nurse in her bedroom.
The suspect pleaded not guilty and refuted the charges when he showed up before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Sunday.
“I did not,” he told presiding judge Mohammad Jamal.
“You did not rape her or you had consensual sex with her?” presiding judge Jamal asked the suspect.
“No I did not do anything,” replied the suspect.
The judge then rephrased the question to inquire if any sexual encounter happened between the two. He then said: “Nothing happened between us at all.”
The nurse told prosecutors that the suspect came to her room at 4.30pm.
“When his girlfriend left the room, he told me that she was tired and went to sleep in his room. They had come to discuss whether we could move out and share a villa accommodation for a cheaper rent. He closed the door and stayed inside … I stood up and he came towards me. Then he asked me if I had a boyfriend. He pulled me and made me sit down on the bed then hugged me. Then he kissed me and when I tried to push him away and resist him, he pinned me down and raped me. He left the room after he finished … I felt disgusted that I had been treated cheaply. I felt agitated and scared. I reported the matter to the police,” she testified to prosecutors.
A police lieutenant, who questioned the suspect, told prosecutors that the 26-year-old alleged to him that he had consensual sex with the Briton.
The trial continues.
