DUBAI // A drunk businessman sentenced to six months in jail after he entered the wrong house, took off his trousers then laid down in bed and touched two sisters while they slept must see out his term.

Dubai Criminal Court found Pakistani KA, 40, guilty of charges of molestation, trespassing and consuming alcohol without a licence and the Court of Appeal has upheld the ruling.

On November 10 last year, the man entered the house of an Indian family in Al Rashidiya at about 5am and then lay down next to one of the daughters before switching beds to her sister.

The sisters, 27-year-old FA and SA, 21, were sleeping when the eldest felt someone touching her.

“I jumped out of my bed and turned on the lights to see a man naked from below lying on my bed,” said FA, who screamed so loudly that she woke her entire family.

The family rushed to the room and then held the man until police arrived.

The younger sister said she was also molested. “I felt someone touching me and pulling my hair but I was so tired and in deep sleep that I did not wake up to it,” SA said. “But when my sister screamed loudly and turned on the lights, I woke up.”

Prosecutors said that the defendant confessed to the three charges during investigations.

In an earlier hearing, he admitted consuming alcohol but denied trespassing and molesting the women.

He will be deported after completing his jail term, though the verdict is subject to appeal at the cassation court within 15 days.

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