Policeman charged with raping waitress

A policeman allegedly kidnapped a Moroccan woman, took her to a desert area and raped her, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

According to the records, on June 7, SAR, 26, Omani, who works for Dubai Police Transport Security asked LBO, 27, waitress, for her documents and then asked her to ride in his car to the police station.
 

Instead, he then allegedly took her to the desert and forced her to please him sexually.

He then dropped her at her friend’s house in Sharjah.

The victim alleges that on their way to her friend's house he threatened her about lodging a complaint saying his father was the Sharjah Police Chief.

LBO testified that she arrived in the country on a work visa a year-and-a-half ago and was working as a waitress in a hotel for Dh1,700 monthly salary.

On June 7, at around 2am, she met her two friends Bushra and Yasim outside her residence.

The went to a shisha café and at around 3am hailed a cab to go to Bushra’s house.

“After riding the taxi, three people including the accused asked the taxi driver to stop. My friend Yasmin asked two of the men about the reason of stopping the taxi and the third was talking over the phone. They told her not to interfere and asked the driver for his papers,” testified the victim.

“I went down with Bushra to take another cab, Yasmin stayed and then the men asked the taxi to move. Bushra took a taxi and left. I stayed waiting for a another taxi. The accused approached me and offered me to drop me to my home.

“As I refused, he prevented any taxi from picking me up by asking them to move when they stopped close to me. I fought with him about that, so he said he is a policeman and he will take me to the police station to check my papers and dragged me into his car.

“He had shown his ID card to the first taxi driver, so I knew he was a cop and rode his car.

On the way he told me that he will teach me politeness. He locked the doors and drove to a sandy area in Al Khawaneej area.

“He said: ‘I am going to kill you because you are not polite and I will teach you politeness’.

“He stopped the car and asked me to get down but I refused. He got out of the car pulled my hair and pulled me out of the car and forced me to please him.

“Then he left the place and after about 15 minutes I saw him coming back. He told me that the only good thing he will do to me is drop me home. I asked him to drop me to my friend’s place in Sharjah.

“I arrived at my friend’s house at around 5am and took his car’s plate number down. I told my friend what happened so we decided to call him and record the call. He repeated his threat. We then filed a complaint at Al Murraqqabat Police Station," she testified.

Bushra 28, repeated the same testimony and said that she has called him after he dropped the victim to make him say what he did to her as she was recording the call.

First Sergeant Saleh Nasser, testified that the accused was arrested from his house in Ajman on June 8 at around 8pm.

Police checked the CCTV cameras of the hotel the victim mentioned and found out that three women rode a taxi and then the accused with other two stopped the taxi and presented their cards to driver.

“We saw two of the three women got down off the car. Then the camera showed the victim was standing alone and after that disappear as the camera could not capture her,” he testified.

The accused told police that he stopped the taxi driver because he was blocking traffic. The three women got off the car. Two took another cab while the third stayed alone and then approached him and asked him to drop her home by his car.

He told investigating officers that on their way she started touching him and seducing him. He took her to a sandy area at Al Warqa area where he had consensual sex with her and then dropped her to her friend’s house in Sharjah upon her request.

The court adjourned the case until November 21.

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