Jail term upheld in Al Ain for Molotov cocktail throwing motorist

The Al Ain Court of Appeal heard the defendant had his jail term upheld for endangering other people's lives by performing dangerous drifting stunts, refusing to obey orders from police and then resisting arrest when the officer tried to handcuff him.

AL AIN // Three of four men who had previously been jailed for carrying out dangerous drifting stunts on public roads and throwing a Molotov cocktail into another car, won their appeals against their sentences.

The Al Ain Court of Appeal overturned a year-long jail term for the Emiratis, but upheld the fourth Emirati’s sentence.

Al Ittihad, the Arabic-language sister newspaper of The National, reported that the men, aged between 22 and 26, had been found guilty of driving recklessly on public roads by deliberately screeching the wheels of their vehicles.

The court heard that when the main driver was spotted by police carrying out the stunts he refused to obey orders to pull over and sped away.

When he was eventually caught, he resisted arrest when a police officer tried to handcuff him.

He had also concealed his car’s rear number plate.

Abdullah Al Harmoodi, the lawyer for the three who were acquitted, argued that they had nothing to do with the fourth man.

The Court of First Instance had previously jailed the three for a year on charges of endangering lives.

The fourth man was sentenced to one year in prison for endangering lives, a month for assaulting a public official, a month for the drifting stunts, a month for concealing the plates and six months for disobeying orders from a police officer.