DUBAI // A company chief executive who threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend and assaulted her pilot boyfriend has been sentenced to three months in jail.
JH, 45, threatened NM, 45, and boyfriend YB, 35, all of whom are British, and also attacked the latter.
The company boss had been stalking his ex-partner and followed her on February 2 to the pilot’s apartment, where she was to have lunch.
“He shouted at me, saying he will kill me if he sees me with another person,” NM said.
The pilot added: “I went out to the lift to see why it took her so long to reach my apartment. When the lift opened, I saw NM standing in the corner while JH was screaming at her.”
The chief executive told the pilot not to interfere before the latter helped his girlfriend out of the lift and the former left.
The couple went out but later went back to the apartment to pick up NM’s jacket and said that the company boss was again waiting outside. NM said the screaming and threats started again and the pilot said he was slapped in the face.
At Dubai Criminal Court on Thursday, JH was handed a three-month jail term.
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