Woman catches man 40 days after he molested her in Dubai bus

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Woman catches man 40 days after he molested her in Dubai bus

Dubai - He had been staring at her in an unnerving manner from the moment she walked in.

By Web Report

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Published: Tue 11 Dec 2018, 3:19 PM

Last updated: Tue 11 Dec 2018, 5:40 PM

A man who molested a woman while she rode a public bus in Dubai claimed he "couldn't resist her beauty the moment I saw her".
The 28-year-old Asian housewife had disembarked from Stadium station along Dubai metro's green line, as per Emarat Al Youm report.
She boarded an RTA bus in Nahda area headed in the direction of Sharjah, moving to sit in the upper level due to overcrowding in the designated women and family area below.
After sitting behind three women, she noticed a man in the front of the bus was staring at her in an unnerving manner. He got up from his seat and moved to an area behind her.
Within minutes of the bus moving, she felt something press against an intimate area of her body but thought it was a part of the seat.
When she felt that pressure again, she looked and was shocked to find a person's hand wedged between the seat and the bus window.
Leaping from her seat, the woman yelled at him and called for nearby passengers to come to her aid.
After seeing her reaction, the man left the bus at the first stop to avoid being caught.
The woman went to the driver and told him that she was molested by a man who just disembarked, asking him to check the CCTV cameras in the bus.
He replied that she needed to file a report with the RTA who asked her to file a police report so they can be given access to the footage.
Two weeks later, the police called her to inform that they were unable to access the footage because the recordings are only available for five days before being erased automatically.
They informed her she should record him and send them the footage if she happened to spot the man again.
After nearly forty days passed, as luck would have it, the same man wearing similar attire boarded her  bus. She recorded him without his knowledge and sent it to the police. She also informed them that it appeared that he was a regular commuter on this route.
The following day, the police lay in wait for the suspect till she confirmed that he was the same individual and arrested the culprit.
He confessed to police that he saw her boarding the bus and was too overcome by her "beautiful body" to stop himself from touching her.
An eyewitness to the incident said he saw the woman scream at a man and cry, saying: "How dare you touch my body!"
He accompanied her as she informed the bus driver and gave her statement to the police.


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