“Dubai Appeal” increases the penalty for 3 women and a man who tortured a Gulf man

The Dubai Court of Appeal intensified the punishment of a gang consisting of three women and a man who, along with other fugitives, detained a Gulf man, after seducing him with the image of a charming woman through an electronic application, and lured him to a hotel apartment, and tortured and burned him in several sensitive areas of his body, with boiling water, until They caused him a permanent disability, forced him to disclose the data of two bank cards, and forcibly seized about 2,400 dirhams from him.

The Court of Appeal sentenced the defendants to five years in prison, in addition to deportation and a fine, instead of only three years, according to the ruling of the Court of First Instance.

The victim said, in the investigations of the Public Prosecution, that a message was received to him via an electronic application, from a girl supposed to be from South America, and she sent him an exciting picture and her address, and when he arrived at the place, he found an African woman, who told him that the owner of the picture would come immediately, and as soon as he entered, He was surprised by two men and five women, who began to beat him, so he tried to resist and escape, but they surrounded him, and one of them brought hot water, poured him on his legs and sensitive areas in his body, and dropped him, tied his hands with a piece of cloth, then photographed him naked, and threatened to kill him if he did not disclose the number. The secret of his two bank cards, and the more he resisted, the more they tortured him with boiling water, until he lost the ability to resist, and he disclosed the data of the two cards.

The victim added that three women left to withdraw money from the two cards, but they returned without succeeding in that, because the secret numbers are incorrect, and they began torturing him again in a more cruel way, beating him on his face and eyes, and pouring boiling water on him, until he lost consciousness from the severity of the torture .

He indicated that he was surprised when he woke up with a man sitting next to him, so he left his phone for him and ran away from the place, pointing out that he gathered his strength until he was able to go down the building, called the police, and was taken to the hospital, where he underwent two surgeries, from burns that hit his thigh, and unable him to Walking.

In addition, the arrested defendants later retracted their statements before the Public Prosecution and the court, but stated in the rationale for its ruling that it had the right to take the accused’s confession at any stage of the case, even if he changed it afterwards, confirming its conviction in the evidence against the defendants, and the first court ruled They were imprisoned for three years, but the appeals court toughened the sentence and raised the sentence to five years in prison.

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A witness from the Dubai Police said that upon receiving the report, a task force was assigned to search and investigate, locate the accused, arrested four of them, and confessed to having committed the crime, noting that they had been luring their victims through “social media”, and admitted that the victim had been detained in this regard. The incident, torture and theft of an amount of 2,400 dirhams from him.

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