Boy filed rape charge out of spite, court told

The case against the two men is based solely on testimony, the defence says.

DUBAI // Lawyers for two men accused of raping a teenage boy argued in court yesterday that forensic tests showed the boy had not been assaulted and the charges were filed out of spite.

During closing arguments at the Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance, the lawyers Dr Fahad al Sabhan and Ali Musabah said prosecutors had not provided physical evidence.

FA, 25, a broadcast technician, and RS, 25, a police corporal, are charged with sexual assault, homosexual rape, kidnapping, physical assault and threatening the 17-year-old Iraqi boy.

Dr al Sabhan told the court: "We established during the trial that the men had argued with the boy after they discovered he stole a phone from them. This case was filed maliciously."

The student met the two men at the Royal House billiards club in Dubai on January 26, 2010, and FA promised him dinner and a gift to celebrate the end of his school examinations. They took him to RS's home, where FA molested him and RS raped him, prosecutors say.

The boy said that after the incident FA drove him to a laundry to wash his kandoura. He said he was forced to eat and was confined in the car with FA for two hours before he was driven home.

"I was not able to sleep that night and I told my mother what happened," the boy told prosecutors. A police case was filed at 3am with al Qusais police and RS was arrested.

Presiding Judge Fahmy Mounir Fahmy adjourned the case to March 27 to issue his verdict.