DUBAI // A drunk businessman who entered the wrong house, took off his trousers then lay down in bed and touched two sisters while they slept was sentenced to six months in jail on Thursday.
Dubai Criminal Court found Pakistani K A, 40, guilty of charges of molestation, trespassing and consuming alcohol without a licence.
On November 10 last year, the man entered the house of an Indian family in Al Rashidiya at about 5am. He lay down next to one of the daughters before switching beds to her sister.
The sisters, 27-year-old F A and S A, 21, were sleeping when the eldest felt someone touching her.
“I jumped out of my bed and turned on the lights to see a man naked from below lying on my bed,” said F A, who screamed so loudly that she woke her entire family.
The family rushed to the room and then held the man until police arrived.
The sister said she was also molested. “I felt someone touching me and pulling my hair but I was so tired and in deep sleep that I did not wake up to it,” S A said. “But when my sister screamed loudly and turned on the lights, I woke up.”
Prosecutors said that the defendant confessed to the three charges during investigations.
But in court last December, although he admitted consuming alcohol, he denied trespassing and molesting the women.
He will be deported after completing his jail term.
salamir@thenational.ae
