Man molests wife's tenant; jailed in Dubai

A Romanian manager, who went half-naked to an airhostess’ house and groped her after she repeatedly refused his dating proposals, was jailed for a year on Sunday by the Dubai Courts.

JM, 30, would be deported after serving his jail term.

Although he denied the charges, the court found him guilty of indecent assault under duress, physical assault, threatening and entering an inhabited place against the will of the person concerned.

Six months before the incident, the victim, PH, British airhostess, rented two upper floors of the four-storey villa in Mirdiff area from the accused’s wife, EH.

PH was living on the ground floor of the villa and sublet the upper floor to Iraqi and Egyptian colleagues.

Four months later, the husband of the property owner started knocking at the tenant’s door, flattering her and asking her to go out on a date with him.

He asked her to live with him in the flat he owns.

“He used to put his hand on my shoulder while talking at the doorstep. But I always removed his hand for I didn’t like that,” testified the victim, saying she did not report the matter to the police because of her busy flight schedule.

Her mother, SK, used to come from the UK to visit her from time to time.

On March 19, while the airhostess and her mother were in the villa’s hall, they heard the bell ringing.

“I opened the door and all of a sudden the accused, who was accompanied by two of his friends and was wearing only a short, stepped into the hall, hugged me and groped me, saying he missed me,” she told the court during the hearing.

The victim’s mother rushed to her daughter and heard the attacker flattering her daughter.

“I saw him groping her with one hand while I was about a meter-and-a-half away from them,” testified the mother who came again to Dubai to make her testimony.

“While my daughter tried to push him away and release herself from his grip, he pushed her to the floor, hurting her shoulder,” testified the mother.

While the victim rejected his advances, the mother asked him to leave. The accused also threatened the victim’s mother if she didn’t remain silent.

On hearing the shouts and screams of the two women, upper floor tenant, MA, Iraqi, rushed down and talked to the attacker in Arabic. After about 25 minutes, the attacker left the place.

The Iraqi told police that about an hour before the incident, the accused had sent him a message asking him to leave the villa’s door open, claiming that he would bring some people to lease it.

“I asked him to come and discuss the issue. I was shocked to see him in the villa, attacking the tenant and her mother.”

The wife of the accused was not present at the time of the incident, testified the Iraqi.

Medical report showed that the victim sustained injury to her shoulder.

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