DUBAI // A prostitute who reported a customer to police for stealing her bag, was, along with her customer, convicted for having consensual sex outside wedlock.
AM, 26, a plumber from Afghanistan, had sex with KT, 23, from Tajikistan, before taking her bag, which contained her smartphone and Dh2,700 in cash, Dubai Criminal Court heard last month.
The woman reported AM to police, saying he trespassed into her flat, assaulted her and robbed her but neglected to mention that she had sex with him.
“I was about to go out when I opened my door and saw the defendant, who forced himself inside by pushing me backwards into my flat then locked the door,” she said in her initial testimony. “He beat me then smashed my phone and took my bag and, when I screamed, he ran away.”
Later, when the plumber was arrested, he said that he was at her flat with her consent to pay her for sex, after which he took her bag and kept it with him. The Afghan added that he did not know what made him take the bag.
When confronted with this account, the woman confessed to being a prostitute.
The plumber faced charges of trespassing, damaging KT’s smartphone and stealing her bag. She was charged with prostitution and both were charged with having consensual sex.
Both of them confessed to all charges.
AM was sentenced to an additional year in jail to be followed by deportation and fined Dh3000 on charges of theft, trespassing and damaging property.
KT was sentenced to three years and, under court orders, she was put close observation during her jail term.
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