Worker accused of kidnap threat acquitted

The Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance acquitted a 28-year-old Bangladeshi worker accused of threatening to kidnap a compatriot’s wife and her son.

The victim, TMZ, 30, testified that on January 12 at around 7.30pm, while she was in her house in Hamdan area, she received a call from a number she did not know.

“The caller asked me to go out with him and threatened to kidnap me and my son if I refused. I asked him not to call again and hung up. I called my brother-in- law and told him about the call. He called him and the man threatened him as well. The caller called me three times later in the day and repeated the same threat, so I called the police,” she testified.

The victim’s brother-in-law Mohammed Ahmad, 26, sales representative, testified that while he was with the victim in her house, she told him that someone is annoying her over the phone.

“I called the number and a man repeated the same threat. He said he will kidnap her and her son if she refused to go out with him and that nobody can prevent him from carrying out his threat. He also said that she is his wife and not my brother’s,” he testified.

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