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19 March 2024

Teen student attacked in rented brothel

A Vietnamese man allegedly attempted to kill a student who had accompanied his friend to a flat which was used as a vice den. (Supplied)

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By Eman Al Baik

A Vietnamese man allegedly attempted to kill a student who had accompanied his friend to a flat which was used as a vice den, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.
 
MS, 19, Syrian, accompanied his friend MD who wanted to hand over an eviction notice to a tenant of his father's flat.

MD and his friend MS went to the flat in International City in a car belonging to a third friend ND. MD asked his friend ND to stop in front of a building.
 
“As MD was getting off the car, I asked him if he wanted me to come along with him. I got off the car when he said yes. MD knocked on a flat’s door and a Chinese man opened the door and asked us to come in.
 
“As we sat in the living room, four girls appeared and asked us to choose from them. As they were talking in English that we did not understand, MD called his father and told him that the flat is being used as a prostitution den. He also called the police. Later he called our friend ND who was waiting down the building, asking him to come up and talk to the girls. When ND came up, he saw a group of men holding swords in their hands and who were outside the flat looking to get in and assault us,” said the victim who sustained head injuries and fell unconscious.
 
MH, 26, Pakistani engineer who stays in the opposite flat, told investigators that he opened his door to see what was going on as he had heard a woman’s screams.
 
“When I did not see anybody in the corridor I closed the door. But after a few minutes I heard crashes and shouts coming from the flat opposite to mine. I opened the door and I saw a man holding a sword in his hand,” said MH
 
The man attacked the visitors and, by the time police arrived at the scene, they had all ran away. Police arrested FF 26, welder, and accused him of premeditated attempt to murder.
 
The victim MS was rushed to the hospital for treatment of head and arm wounds.

The court will reconvene on June 7.