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29 March 2024

Fairness tempted man to grope woman in lift

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By Eman Al Baik

The fairness of a woman prompted a man to first pinch and then grope her while the two were in a lift of a hotel-cum-office tower.

HS, 23, Jordanian secretary, took the lift to come down from the 21 floor after she finished her work in a legal consultancy office at around 5pm on Thursday July 12.

“The lift went up instead of down. It stopped at the 23 floor where a man got into the lift. He asked me about my place of work and I answered him. Then he asked me about my nationality and I told him I am  Jordanian.

“He seemed astonished by my fair skin. He pinched my arm as I was wearing a short sleeve shirt saying, ‘You are very fair’. Two or three seconds later, I was shocked when he groped my breast. I pushed him back and shouted at him.

“Then the lift reached the ground floor and as the door opened, he quickly got out and I could not stop him. There were no guards near the lift. The next day, I told my employer about what happened. Reviewing the camera footage, the molester was identified,” testified the victim.

The accused admitted to his crime when confronted with the camera footage and said he was attending a training session in the same building.

The Prosecution supplied the Court with a CD that had the recording of the camera in the lift.

The Court is expected to issue its sentence on July 7.