Arab man assaults European woman after luring her to his apartment on pretext of selling it

Mohammed Yaseen, Staff Reporter

The Dubai Appellate Court upheld the ruling of the Court of First Instance jailing an Arab employee for 10 years, to be followed by deportation after serving the jail term, on charges of luring a 50-year-old European woman into his apartment and assaulting her.

The details of the incident date back to August 2020, when the victim filed a report complaining that she had been assaulted by the convict.

She testified that the suspect met her while she was in a hotel restaurant with her friend in Al Barsha area in Dubai.

She added that the convict claimed  to be a businessman and had a large apartment, which he wanted to sell for an attractive price.

He offered her and her friend to spend the evening in his apartment and to have dinner with him there.

When they got inside the apartment, he and her friend discovered it consisted of only one bedroom and a hall.

The victim added the suspect caught her with both hands and pushed her inside a room, locked the door, detained her, assaulted her and threatened to kill her if she resisted him.

The victim's friend supported her words and said the suspect spoke to him in French and English and persuaded him and his girlfriend while they were in the restaurant to have dinner and spend their evening in his apartment, where he did his crime.