Couple had sex for 5 years under 'magic spell'

A senior Saudi banker who was caught with a woman told police that he had sex with her for nearly five years after luring her by magic, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The woman, also Saudi, confirmed to members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice that she had been with the man for all that period without knowing why, Kabar said.

“She said that she used to go to him whenever he called her and that she was also transferring money to him from her account involuntarily,” the paper said, adding that the man is an assistant manager of a major bank in Riyadh.

“When they searched her bag, they found a magic amulet which the man confessed to having concealed in her bag to keep the woman under his control…the amulet was destroyed and the magic spell was eliminated.”

The paper said the man was arrested while the woman was released at once on the grounds she was involved in a relationship that was out of her control.

Man arrested for molesting three little girls

Saudi Arabia’s police arrested an Arab grocer for molesting three little girls at his shop, claiming they stole him and he was only searching them.

The girls, aged between 7 and 9 years, screamed and rushed out of the shop to tell their uncle who was at a nearby shop in the southern town of Abu Areesh.

“They told him he was caressing their bodies in a strange way…their uncle went to rebuke the grocer but he threatened him with a knife,” Alsaudi daily said, adding that the grocer was arrested on charges of molesting minors and threatening a person with a knife.

Mentally ill man stabs old woman in street

A mentally ill man picked an ageing woman among passers by in a busy street in Saudi Arabia and stabbed her before running away.

Police said they later captured the man, in his 30s, and took him to the hospital where doctors said he was not normal.

The Saudi woman, aged above 70 years, was rushed to hospital and was reported later to be in a stable condition, Kabar newspaper said in a report from the eastern town of Qariya Al Olia.

Accidental killer disputes court ruling on diya

A Saudi driver who accidentally killed a man on the road disputed a court ruling to pay SR300,000 (Dh295,000) diya (blood money) to the victim’s relatives, saying the accident took place when the diya was set by the law at SR120,000 (Dh119,000).

The court in Riyadh ordered the driver to pay SR300,000 after the approval of a new law increasing diya from SR120,000 to SR300,000.

“The man refused to pay on the grounds the accident happened when the diya was SR120,000,” Sabq newspaper said.

“He said it was not his fault that the court took a long time to issue its sentence….he decided to appeal the verdict.”

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