Three months in jail for man who molested salon manager

The Pakistani man groped the Canadian manager after he asked her to show him how a tanning machine worked.

DUBAI // An advertising agent who molested the manager of a beauty salon after asking her how the tanning machine worked has been sentenced to three months in jail.

The Pakistani agent A Q, 30, visited the salon on July 31 last year.

“He told me he worked for an advertising company and needed to know the salon’s data, then afterwards asked me how the tanning machine worked,” said the Canadian victim S N, 31.

He then asked her if any part of her body was tanned and she showed him her arms.

“He started looking at my chest and implied in a sleazy way that he wanted to see more,” she said.

The manager said he groped her but she kicked him and ran behind the front desk.

He chased her saying, “I’m turned on by you, you’re making me lose control,” Dubai Criminal Court heard.

“I kicked him out of the salon and locked the door, and I called the salon owner to report what happened,” she said.

He hung around outside the salon and called its number on his mobile to apologise and plead with her not to call the police.

The owner of the beauty salon, American M F, 44, testified that his manager had called him in a state of shock.

“She told me she wanted to close the salon and leave because a man molested her, but I asked her to seek help,” he said.

“A Q’s manager from the advertising company and their HR staff came to talk to me and to her to request that we settle the issue away from police.”