Advertising executive who tried to remove salon manager’s bra jailed in Dubai

The Pakistani walked into a salon, asking about the tanning machine before he sexually assaulted the Canadian manager.

DUBAI // A man who tried to pull a beauty salon manager’s bra down was sentenced to three months in jail on Wednesday.

Pakistani advertising executive A Q, 30, visited a salon in July 2013 and enquired about the tanning machine.

He then asked the Canadian manager, S N, 31, to show him parts of her body that had been tanned, so she showed him her arms, prosecutors said.

“He tried to pull my bra down but I kicked him and ran to the desk,” the manager said.

She said he followed her but she threw him out of the salon and locked the door, which he then tried to reopen.

The manager called the salon’s owner, who told her to get help from a nearby gents salon.

She then called the police before fainting in fear.

“She told me she wanted to close the salon and leave because a man molested her but I asked her to seek help,” said the salon’s American owner, M F, 44.

He said that after the incident, on July 31, the manager of the advertising company where the accused worked and a human-resources employee asked the victim not to involve the police.

“They said he was a married man and his wife was pregnant and he was fasting on that day,” M F said.

At Dubai Criminal Court, the accused was sentenced to three months in jail and he will be deported after completing his sentence.