3 years for 'pay up, marry me or else' lover

The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced a Bahrain-born man, who does not hold identification documents, to three years in jail for threatening his Emirati beloved with publishing her pictures and SMSs on the web if she did not pay Dh250,000 ransom or marry him.

FAG, 31, director, did not accept any of the threats and instead told her parents who lodged a complaint with the police.

In 2005, FAG met NAM, 34, who met her specifications for a future husband through a website for marriage seekers.

Their relationship developed to the extent that she was sponsoring his higher education, but FAG got shocked when she knew that he does not hold identification documents after two years of their love affair.

“Although I loved him and supported him morally and financially to become in the same social rank, education and money wise, I asked him to break the relation because I am sure that my parents will not accept him as a husband being a non-Emirati.
 
He refused to break up and instead started following her in his car on her way to work and at work by calling her.

One day while she was on her way to work he showed an enlarged picture of her and told her that he would throw copies on the street.

He also threatened that he will deliberately defame her reputation at work by telling her colleagues about their love affair. She stopped her car and cried before him. All her SMS and direct pleas to break up especially that her parents actually refused him when he asked them for her hand did not work. He threatened with publishing her personal pictures and those of her house and cars on the internet , she testified before the prosecution.

“I offered to pay him Dh100,000 to leave me alone…but he did not accept and as he knows I get Dh30,000 a monthly salary and that I have a number of cars. He asked for Dh250,000 and advised me to sell my cars to pay him the amount to break up or to marry him,” she testified before the prosecution adding, “he continued his threats over a year and a half and as I got depressed of him I told my parents who lodged a complaint with the police.”

Police found in his mobile 12 pictures of women four of which are of the victim.

As well, threat SMS on the victim’s mobile in addition to other on send from his email to her email. On his mobile police found 3 pleas SMSs sent by the victim on different dates.

The jail sentence is followed by deportation.

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