(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) A 24-year-old Emirati man who kidnapped a married woman from Dubai and raped her in a hotel room in Al Ain, was sentenced by the Court of First Instance on Monday to 15 years in prison. He was convicted of kidnap and rape.
The verdict remains subject to appeal within 15 days at the Court of Appeal.
The jobless man kidnapped an Emirati woman, 29, by threatening to kill her if she did not ride with him in his car.
The complainant, an employee, told the prosecutor that the defendant had proposed to her but she had turned him down. On the day of the incident in December last year, she had an exam at a school in Al Hamriyah when the defendant got into her car and rode with her inadvertently. He asked her to ride with him but she told him that she would see him after taking her exam. It was about 4pm.
He came back shortly in his car and blocked her as she was about to call her husband.
He was angry and was shouting and she rode with him as she was scared.
He snatched her phone and drove very fast on the Dubai-Al Ain Road. During the journey, he slapped and punched her as she started crying.
At Al Ain, they stopped at a hotel where his friends waited after booking a room for him.
She did not try to escape because she realised that his friends were there.
Once in the room, he prevented her from escaping through the window. He then turned off the lights and raped her.
On the way back, when he stepped out of the car to buy water, she sped away in his car.
She called her husband with a motorist's mobile phone and headed to her sister's place in Dubai. She also filed a complaint at Muraqqabat police station.
The complainant's sister, a 33-year-old stateless, said that the defendant had proposed to her sister months before the incident but she had turned it down.
He kept calling and sending her SMS about his love for her sister even after the latter's marriage to another man.
The complainant's husband said that he went to pick up his wife on that day but she had already headed back to Dubai. He quoted his wife as saying that the defendant kidnapped her to force her husband to divorce her.
He also said that he got a phone call from the defendant asking him to return his car.
The defendant admitted during the investigation that he had sex with the complainant.
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