'I'll kill you if you don't let me go back home'

The Dubai Criminal Court awarded an Ethiopian driver three months in jail for threatening to kill his sponsor's administrative assistant if she did not cancel his residency visa and hand over his passport.

The Dubai Prosecution accused JDJ, 26, of threatening to kill Huda Mahmoud if she refused to cancel his visa and to hand him over his passport on July 7.

He is also accused of abusing her in public and insulted the plaintiff’s honour and misusing etisalat service annoying her in the previous hearing.

The accused confessed to threatening and insulting accusations but denied misusing etisalat service and annoying accusation.

Huda Mahmoud, 38, Sudanese, employee testified that she was assigned by her manager to cancel the visa of JDJ as he was not willing to work anymore. She was handed over JDJ’s passport to proceed with the visa cancellation.

“On the following day, JDJ approached me and asked me to wait until he got a work offer. I stated  with checking his gratuity and other formalities that may take a week. Beginning of July he called me several times and asked me to cancel his visa as he got a job with Dubai Taxi. I asked him to wait for a week and told him that the formalities are in process. He abused and threatened me. A day before he called me and asked for the cancellation documents and to hand him over the passport. I told him that today is an official holiday and that I will process the papers on the following day. However, he abused me using very bad words. On the following day he waited for me in the street and attacked and threatened to kill me.

The guard interfered and held him away from me and my car,” she testified.

Bravin Raj, 22, Nepali, guard, testified that on July 10, the plaintiff asked him to prevent the driver from entering the building. “I did not allow the driver from entering the building so he waited her outside the building. While she was walking towards her car the driver was threatening her saying: “I will show you who I am.”. She did not give attention and continued walking and sat in her car. The driver tried to open the car’s door but I prevented him,” he testified.