Police charge Dubai man after tragic accidental death of girlfriend

Argentina News.Net
Friday 3rd July, 2009

In a bizarre twist a man who lost his female flatmate in a tragic accident will now be prosecuted because of an unrelated incident.

The man, an Egyptian engineer, was sharing an apartment with a woman at Discovery Gardens, a residential development near Dubai Marina. The woman was practising ballet on the balcony of their apartment when she fell.

The man was questioned extensively by Dubai Police for several hours about the incident. In the course of the questioning the man admitted he and the 28-year-old woman had had consensual sex.

Now Dubai Police have charged the man and will prosectute him for having consensual sex with a woman he was not married to.

The matter will be heard by the Dubai Misdemeanours Court.

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