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Student accused of raping woman

An Emirati student allegedly raped a woman compatriot in his place after promising to marry her, a court heard on Sunday.

According to prosecution records, the 24-year-old defendant had been in a love relation through the phone with the complainant. On the day of the incident, he lured her to see his place where, he said, they would live after marriage. There, he illegally confined her in his bedroom and raped her.

The student faced charges of rape and molestation with the use of force, kidnap and illegal confinement by deceit in the Court of First Instance.

The complainant, a 28-year-old writer, told the prosecutor that the defendant fooled her into believing that he would marry her and on that day in January he lured her to go to his place in Mizhar. She said that the defendant had been calling her on her mobile phone as he knew one of her brothers.

Her brother had had a sword fight and the defendant gave him a ride from the police station. Her brother used the defendant’s mobile phone to call her.

The accused kept on her calling her and sending text messages alleging her loved and wanted to propose to her.

On the day of the incident, he called her on her mobile phone and said that he had a car accident and he wanted to see her. He led her to his villa in Mizhar and when she reached there he grabbed and dragged her by her hand inside. He took her to his bedroom and then locked her inside.

There, he slapped her on her face and forced her to take off her head cover and abaya. He then undressed her and molested her. He beat her when she tried to run away from him into the bathroom. He also threatened that he would call her brother by phone and tell him that she was with him.

He told her not to tell her parents and her sister promising that he would visit her family to propose to her. When the accused ignored her calls later in the day the complainant told her sister, who in turn informed her husband. She filed a complaint with Al Qusais police station.

A police lieutenant quoted the defendant as admitting that he knew the complainant and that he had sex with her in his bedroom. He alleged it happened with her full consent.

The forensic medicine report of the General Directorate of Criminal Evidence confirmed that the complainant had had sex at the time the complaint was filed. She also had bruises on her body.

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