Dubai housewife threatens to cut off jogger's legs over flower pots

Jogger was threatened with dismemberment if she passed the gardening enthusiast's home again, court told.

DUBAI // An Emirati woman threatened to cut the legs off a female jogger if she walked past her house again, a court heard yesterday.

The defendant, 29-year-old Government employee F I, was charged in the Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance with assaulting, threatening and insulting a 36-year-old Emirati housewife, H K, on September 17 last year.

H K told police she was involved in an argument with F I's mother over flower pots she had placed on the pavement outside her home that posed a danger to joggers.

"I always exercise on the pathway that goes directly in front of the defendant's house and on the day of the incident I saw her mother placing flower pots on the pathway," H K told prosecutors.

"I spoke to the mother, asking her to remove them because they were dangerous and she started screaming at me," H K said.

While H K was arguing with the defendant's mother, F I got involved and assaulted HK, records state.

A 46-year-old housewife who witnessed the incident, W O, told prosecutors that F I came out the house and shoved H K.

"She was screaming at us, using bad language and threatening us that she will dismember us if she ever saw us walking in front of her house again," H K said.

F I yesterday denied the charges before criminal court judge Maher Mehdi Salama.

The court will hear witness testimonies in the case on February 29.