Security guards jailed for harassing woman

Hamza M Sengendo, Staff Reporter

A watchman who groped and tried to abuse a watchwoman has been imprisoned with his colleague who vowed to abuse her for having sought police help.

The Asian defendant, 28, was with the Pakistani woman at their shared villa in Rashidiyah at around 3pm on Mar.24 when he touched her inappropriately. She resisted his advances. He punched her in the face. She and her compatriot friend –a mechanic- reported the matter to the police. The defendant’s colleague, 25, insulted her and the mechanic, vowed to kill them and yelled obscenities involving their family members.

Both victims complained to the police about him. Police returned to pick him up. He engaged them in a scuffle, pushed one cop against a wall and pelted them with obscenities. He and the defendant were drunk. A Bahraini corporal and a Sudanese policeman testified that they returned to enter the colleague inside the patrol vehicle. He resisted to be handcuffed, pushed them, insulted them and involved their mothers and sisters.

The Dubai Criminal Court has imprisoned them for six months plus deportation over breach of modesty and assault charges. It referred alcohol abuse, insults and threats charges to the Misdemeanours Court. On the record, the woman was in the house’s yard when the defendant felt her shoulder and pestered her to enter the washroom. She resisted and pushed him. He seized her arm and chest while telling her to enter.

He was inebriated. He insisted he wanted to be with her. She resisted and he threw a punch below her left eye. She sustained assault injuries. She screamed for help. The mechanic heard and came to her rescue.  Policemen came and took him away. Shortly, his colleague insulted and threatened to kill her and the mechanic. He vowed to abuse her and her female relatives. He uttered the same statements against the mechanic.

She contacted police fearing he would implement his vow. He resisted arrest. During the standoff he shoved a cop against a wall. He called cops bad names and uttered that he would abuse their female relatives as well.  The mechanic said he heard her screaming, rushed and found the defendant seizing and trying to push her inside the washroom while insisting he wanted her. “I confronted him. He picked a piece of metal to hit me.

“I fled back inside my room and contacted the police. The defendant’s colleague insulted my mother and vowed to kill me. When police came to detain him he resisted and said things against their mothers and sisters.”