Dubai expat jailed for filming woman in shower

Dubai - The Dubai Court of First Instance found him guilty of sexual assault and invasion of privacy.

A man, who peeped into a bathroom and filmed a woman while she was taking a shower, was sentenced to three months in jail by a Dubai court on Wednesday (July 31).
The 41-year-old Filipino expat used his mobile phone to film the Filipina while she was naked in the bathroom of her flat in Al Muraqqabat, court records showed.
The Dubai Court of First Instance found him guilty of sexual assault and invasion of privacy. He will be deported after completing his three-month jail term.
A police officer told the prosecutor that upon receiving the complaint, they managed to locate the defendant. The police got in touch with his wife, who helped them in the arrest.
The victim said: "I screamed when I saw the hand of someone holding a mobile phone through the small window of the bathroom. The person then pulled his hand out."
She went out to look for the man and asked help from her brother.
"The watchman told us he did not see anybody suspicious. My brother later asked the defendant, who was on the third floor, if he saw anyone lurking around. The latter claimed that he saw a Pakistani man dropping massage cards," the victim recalled during the public prosecution investigation.
The man, who then looked agitated, asked the woman's brother why the bathroom window was open. He allegedly kept asking more questions, thus raising suspicions about him.
"We went to the security guard's room and checked the surveillance cameras. We found the suspect wearing the same shirt as the Filipino man. We decided to call the police.
"When the defendant heard our conversation, he walked in and confessed. He claimed he had deleted the whole footage," the woman told the prosecutor.
The ruling has been appealed.
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