Duo steal money, burn passport and visa of two sisters

Dubai - The two men, including an Emirati employee and a Comoros Islands passport holder, are accused of assaulting the two sisters

Two men, facing trial for assaulting two Nigerian sisters in their hotel room at night and stealing Dh 1,000 and a handbag from them, denied in court a trespass charge but admitted they burnt the bag after stealing the cash.
The two men, including an Emirati employee and a Comoros Islands passport holder, are accused of assaulting the two sisters in their place, locking them up in the bathroom before stealing a handbag.
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The two accused, both aged, 33, took the cash they found in the handbag and then burnt it with the personal documents that were inside, including a passport and visa of one of them.
Both denied in the Court of First Instance trespassing in the sisters' room, claiming they were invited in but admitted that they burnt the woman's bag.
Prosecutors accuse them of theft, trespass and damage of private property.
However, the two gave a different story during the interrogation; the reason one of them had gone there in the first place was to meet prostitutes.
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One of the sisters, a 27-year-old on a visit visa, said they were at the room when they heard a knocking on the door. "The moment I opened the door two men pushed me inside and went in. They dragged us to the bathroom and locked us there.
Shortly later, I managed to open the door and saw them leaving with my handbag," she told the prosecutor.
The women called the police on October 29, last year in Jebel Ali.
A policeman, who interrogated the first defendant, said : "The complainant told us that two men stole Dh 1,000 and her passport and visa that were in her handbag.
"We arrested the first accused. He claimed he had gone to the hotel room after being sent the address by a woman he had met online. He was to have sex for money. But three women who were in the room threatened him and forced him to pay them all his cash (Dh 400) and then to take off his clothes before asking him to choose one of them for sex".
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The officer added : "The defendant declined their offer then and left. He sought the help of his friend to go back there to get back his money.
They went back there and stole the bag which contained one of the women's papers and Dh 1,000. They burnt it later in the desert and split the money".
The court will hand down a ruling on April 4.
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