Investor jailed for death threats

n investor was sentenced to six months in jail yesterday for threatening to kill a visitor and behead his father over a Dh250,000 debt.

The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the 61-yearold British defendant, H.A., of verbally threatening the life of the 30-year-old Korean visitor, J.H., and that of his family and to behead his father if he did not sign a letter acknowledging a debt of Dh250,000.

“I am not guilty. I did not take his signature by force, but Iwas presentwith another person, named S., who obtained the signature,” argued H.A. when he faced the court.

Presiding Judge Maher Salama Al Mahdi ordered H.A’s deportation after his jail term.

Prosecutors said H.A. and three other suspects [who are at large] stormed into J.H.’s office and issued dire threats to him and his family.

They threatened to kill his father if he refused to sign a letter confirming that he owed them Dh250,000.

The Korean testified that he agreed to meet the suspects in his father’s company to settle the issue. “They came to office by 9am. H.A. said if I did not pay him back the debt he would endanger my life. He threatened to harm my family. They coerced me to sign a letter acknowledging that I owed H.A. Dh250,000.” 30-year-old woman has accused her former husband of e-mailing her photos to her workmates, alleging that she has became a dancer, and posting her naked pictures on Facebook.

The Egyptian woman claimed to prosecutors that her 34-year-old countryman, A.M., did so to coerce her to waive her rights in their legal dispute before the Dubai Sharia Court.

Prosecution records said the dispute between the couple started two weeks following their marriage last July. The woman, who according to records jobless man was jailed for six months yesterday for forging his brother’s identification to sponsor a housemaid and pocket Dh3,000.

The Dubai Court of First Instance is identified as A.M.’s exwife, claimed that their dispute started when she refused to take a bank loan and buy a car for her then husband.

She claimed that as soon as the problem surfaced she asked to divorce A.M., who agreed to do so on the condition that she waive all her rights.

Threatened

“When I rejected his offer, he threatened to turn my life upside down… he said he would disrepute me and dishonourme before my workmates and relatives. He hacked into my private e-mail and e-mailed my boss claiming that I had quit my job and that I had started working as a night dancer. He also posted my naked photos [which were shot while they were stillmarried] on Facebook and claimed that my name was M. and my agewas 20 and that I wanted to date men,” the woman claimed to prosecutors.

Prosecutors charged A.M. with blackmail and extortion by posting his ex wife’s personal and private photos on the internet to coerce her to waive her religious rights before the Dubai Sharia Court.

He was additionally accused of misusing the internet and violating family values and principles by posting the photos on Facebookwhile shewas still his wife.

“No, I amnot guilty. I did not do any of that. Actually we are not divorced yet and she is still my wife,” A.M. was heard saying