DUBAI // A maid and her lover are charged with having illicit sex in the ocean to avoid being caught, a court heard today.
The Dubai Court of Misdemeanours was told that the Emirati sponsor of the 26-year-old MM, Filipina, took her to the hospital in June when she started complaining of stomach pains. But doctors there told him she was pregnant.
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The sponsor reported her to police, where she confessed to having sex three times with her Pakistani lover in the waters off the Jumeirah Open Beach.
MM and GE, 25, who is married, are charged with having illicit sex.
MM confessed that she would leave her sponsor's house in Al Jafiliah area late at night, after everyone was asleep, and head to a nightclub with her friends. She said she met GE at the President Hotel's nightclub in February.
"I would sneak out of the villa using my spare key after everyone has slept, then take a taxi to the nightclub," MM told prosecutors.
The couple started meeting at the Open Beach, where they had sex while swimming, records show.
MM confessed before court.
The next hearing will be on August 2 to summon GE.
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Hidden killer
Sepsis arises when the body tries to fight an infection but damages its own tissue and organs in the process.
The World Health Organisation estimates it affects about 30 million people each year and that about six million die.
Of those about three million are newborns and 1.2 are young children.
Patients with septic shock must often have limbs amputated if clots in their limbs prevent blood flow, causing the limbs to die.
Campaigners say the condition is often diagnosed far too late by medical professionals and that many patients wait too long to seek treatment, confusing the symptoms with flu.
German intelligence warnings
- 2002: "Hezbollah supporters feared becoming a target of security services because of the effects of [9/11] ... discussions on Hezbollah policy moved from mosques into smaller circles in private homes." Supporters in Germany: 800
- 2013: "Financial and logistical support from Germany for Hezbollah in Lebanon supports the armed struggle against Israel ... Hezbollah supporters in Germany hold back from actions that would gain publicity." Supporters in Germany: 950
- 2023: "It must be reckoned with that Hezbollah will continue to plan terrorist actions outside the Middle East against Israel or Israeli interests." Supporters in Germany: 1,250
Source: Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
2018 ICC World Twenty20 Asian Western Regional Qualifier
The top three teams progress to the Asia Qualifier
Final: UAE beat Qatar by nine wickets
Third-place play-off: Kuwait beat Saudi Arabia by five runs
Table
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The biog
DOB: March 13, 1987
Place of birth: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia but lived in Virginia in the US and raised in Lebanon
School: ACS in Lebanon
University: BSA in Graphic Design at the American University of Beirut
MSA in Design Entrepreneurship at the School of Visual Arts in New York City
Nationality: Lebanese
Status: Single
Favourite thing to do: I really enjoy cycling, I was a participant in Cycling for Gaza for the second time this year
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The biog
Name: Gul Raziq
From: Charsadda, Pakistan
Family: Wife and six children
Favourite holes at Al Ghazal: 15 and 8
Golf Handicap: 6
Childhood sport: cricket
