Singer jailed by Dubai court for consensual sex

The Emirati man and a friend were cleared of sexually assaulting the 19-year-old Frenchwoman due to a lack of evidence but were charged for consensual sex.

DUBAI // Two men, one of them a well-known singer, have been jailed for consensual sex with a Frenchwoman but cleared of sexually assaulting her.

On Sunday, Dubai Criminal Court sentenced S S, 34, and A A, 23, both Emiratis, to three months in prison.

The court heard that the incident happened at S S’s villa on July 5 last year.

The 19-year-old Frenchwoman was found the next morning, lying half-naked in a building site in Al Barsha by an army officer who was out jogging.

The Emirati corporal A M A, 45, said he tried to wake her but she would not get up.

“I returned to my nearby house, called the police then brought my wife with a blanket to cover up the woman,” he said.

The woman was taken to hospital, where tests proved she had recently had sex.

She told police she met the two men at the JBR Sheraton hotel then went with them to a villa, where they all consumed alcohol.

“I fainted and then I woke up in hospital and knew I had been raped,” she said.

The police officer who interrogated the defendants said A A admitted meeting the woman on the beach and persuading her to go with him to a party. A A claimed that the woman had consensual sex with S S.

The policeman said: “He also told me that she drank too much and took off her clothes then started dancing naked, after which she started smashing up the place.”