DUBAI // A British housewife has accused a grocery shop delivery worker of trying to rape her in her garden.
The 35-year-old woman told prosecutors that on May 31 she ordered some items from the nearby shop and, when the man arrived, she allowed him into the garden.
“I took the items and paid him but he didn’t leave. He walked towards me then threw me down and tried to kiss and touch me,” said the housewife.
She resisted him as he tried to touch her, she said, then screamed at him threatening to call police.
“He then left,” she said, after which she called her husband, who contacted police.
The officer who was sent to the woman’s house said she had been drinking alcohol when he told her about the incident.
“Then I went to the grocery shop and questioned the suspect. He denied her story and said that she offered him alcohol and he refused, so she fabricated the story,” said the officer, 32.
However, a forensic report confirmed that traces of the defendant’s DNA were found on the woman’s neck. It concluded that there must have been direct contact between the two for the DNA to be there.
The suspect denied a sex assault charge at Dubai Criminal Court.
A verdict is expected on December 14.
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