Alleged kidnapper's friend saves girl from rape

An Emirati is accused of kidnapping and confining an Omani girl by force and threatening to have sex with her, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

MYA, 22, employee is also accused of molesting the 20-year-old hostess in his house at Al Rashidiya area.

AFJ, 20 testified that on March 16 at around 3pm she rode the car of MYA, 22, Emirati, employee from Bin Saugat Centre. He took her to the desert off Al Khawaneej road where he threatened to leave her and kill and bury her if she does not accept to have sex with him in his house, she testified before the prosecution.

She cried and asked him to drop her back home and tried to use her mobile to call her brother, but he snatched her mobile and put it in his pocket and drove her to his house.

“In an old style villa split into two divisions he pulled me into a room and locked it with a key. He uncovered my head and touched my body attempting to have sex and I was resisting him screaming and asking for help. He left the room and went outside leaving the door open. I tried to run away but he saw me. He re-entered the room saying that police are coming and I should please him, but as I refused he attempted to forcibly have sex,” she said.

“Someone knocked at the door and he opened it mentioning a name 'Fahed'. I told Fahed that MYA has kidnapped me and is trying to rape me. Fahed asked about my name and as I answered him, he cynically said to me: “so this is you” and then asked me if I am a virgin. "Yes I am," I told him. So, he managed to convince MYA to release me.

MYA threatened me not to tell anyone with what happened, but as I received a call from my father on my mobile, which I got it back from MYA who deleted all his SMSs… I answered the call without him noticing me and my father heard part of his threats. Then Fahed dropped me in his car to Bin Saugat Centre as I requested him,” she said.

Her father picked her up from the centre and immediately lodged a complaint with the police.

Her father FBI, 44, employee, testified that as his daughter who told her mother that she is going to the Centre was late he started calling her mobile. At around 8.45pm she answered his call and was screaming for help and then cut off the call. “In another call I heard someone was threatening her…then I received an SMS telling that they are going to drop me at the centre,” the father testified.

On the next day morning the neighbour who was sharing the divided villa with the accused went to police and lodged a complaint about hearing a woman screaming in his neighbour’s house.

Talal Abdullah, 23, Omani, employee told the police that as he heard the voice of a woman asking for help he knocked at his neighbour’s door. “Fahed, who is my neighbour’s friend and who regularly visits him, opened the door and told me not to interfer and after five minutes everything became quiet and Fahed’s car left. Asking them after they came back, they told me that MYA was fighting with the woman who was attempting to spoil his relationship with his wife.”

When taken to the house, the victim guided police to the room where the furniture and wall paints were changed. “But I could see the old beige colour of the walls,” testified before the prosecution Abdullah Salem, 24, policeman.

The policeman said that the villa had three quarters each with a separate entrance has been rented by the accused’s mother since 5 years. The mother does not stay anymore in the house since end of March.

Checking the mobile sets of the accused, the victim and her father police reported calls and SMS between the two some of which were on the day of the crime. As well, there were SMSs between her and her father on the day of the crime between 4.30 to 9.12pm.