DUBAI // A 29-year-old Emirati student was acquitted on Tuesday on charges of threatening to kill friends of his former girlfriend if they did not reveal where she was.
Prosecutors had accused him of telling the women that he “turns into a devil when angry” and would find and kill them.
He was charged at Dubai Criminal Court with issuing threats to kill two of his former girlfriend’s friends. He was not in court in April to enter a plea.
Prosecutors claimed that on April 11 last year and on earlier occasions he called and sent threatening text messages to the women, from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, who used to share a flat with his former girlfriend.
“She was our flatmate but her residency expired so she left our apartment,” the Uzbek woman said.
“I don’t know how he got my number but I answered his calls and told him I didn’t know anything about where she went, so he started threatening to come to the flat with a knife and kill me.”
After the man’s arrest, several threatening text messages and details of a phone conversation with the Uzbek woman were found on his phone.
The court gave no reason for the acquittal.
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