Three men, two women jailed for consensual sex in JLT

Surveillance camera showed women thrown out of apartment naked

Dubai: Three men and two women were sentenced to a month each in jail by the Dubai Court of Misdemeanours yesterday after they were found guilty of having sex illegally and consuming liquor.

The prosecution's charge sheet against the accused included some bizarre facts. It said the three men — P.C., 24, J.C., 26, both Britons; and A.B, 28, a South African — met the two women — R.N., 35, Ugandan, and A.M.,30 Rwandan; both allegedly sex workers — in a five-star hotel on Shaikh Zayed Road and came back with them to to P.C.'s flat in the Jumeirah Lake Towers area.

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They consumed liquor, the men were in an inebriated state and all of them had allegedly stripped naked.

Later on, according to the prosecution, P.C. requested one of the girls to perform a sexual service for him, which she refused, causing him to storm into his kitchen and grab a knife, with which he threatened the women and kicked them out of his flat, locking them out without any clothes on.

The women immediately informed the building's security guard, who testified that they seemed to have been raped.

Police arrived on the scene and took the suspects for questioning to the Jebel Ali Police Station, where the women reported they had allegedly been raped.

While the three men were charged with getting drunk and having illegal consensual sexual interaction with the women, the women were charged only for having sex illegally.

Prosecutors dismissed the women's allegations of rape for lack of evidence.

Yesterday, P.C., J.C. and A.B. appeared in court and denied their charges of having sex but admitted they had consumed liquor.

Meanwhile P.C., who was additionally charged with threatening to assault the women with a knife and throwing them out of the flat without their clothes on, denied his charges.

However, the prosecution included in its records, footage of the building's surveillance camera showing P.C. throwing the naked women out of his flat while waving a knife at them.

Prosecutors also said the women allowed the men to touch their private parts after they stripped off their clothes.

Presiding judge Abdul Majid Al Nezamy pronounced the verdict and said the convicts would also be deported after the completion of their jail terms.

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