ABU DHABI // Four men who doused a police tow truck in fuel and set it on fire have been sentenced to one year in prison.
The case began when one of the men was caught by a police patrol doing 360-degree spins in his car, which also did not have any number plates.
He was ordered to stop, but managed to outrun the police in a chase.
The motorist and three other defendants went to a gas station and filled a bottle with petrol.
As they returned to where his car was parked, they found a police tow truck had arrived to take it away.
So, they sprayed flammable material on the truck and set it on fire.
A policeman at the scene tried to make an arrest, but he was attacked.
The Criminal Court also sentenced the first defendant to an additional year for attacking the policeman, a month for stunt driving, a month for driving a car without number plates and six months for not obeying police orders.
The fourth defendant was sentenced to an additional year for covering his car’s number plate on the back.
The cars of the first and second defendants will be confiscated.
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