DUBAI // A drunken teenager broke into a couple’s bedroom and molested a woman as she slept beside her husband, a court heard.
Briton D S, 60, woke up at 5am on January 31 to find Egyptian A R, 19, touching her, prosecutors said.
“I felt someone touching my thighs and sliding his hand to my intimate parts,” said the woman, who works as a librarian.
D S screamed, waking up her husband who chased A R out of the villa in Dubai Silicon Oasis.
“I heard my wife screaming at A R to leave. I tried to catch him outside our villa but without luck,” said B S, 60.
Emirati police officer H S, 2 8, told prosecutors officers arrived at the villa and took fingerprints.
They were able to identify A R from a fingerprint and called his father, telling him to bring his son to the station.
A R was arrested on February 9. He told police that on the night of attack he had been at a farewell party for a friend.
He left the party at 3am and started walking around the streets. He tried to open doors at several homes without luck before coming to the victim’s villa.
“I went inside to steal money,” A R told prosecutors. When he did not find any money on the ground floor he went up the stairs to the bedroom, he said.
At Dubai Criminal Court, A R admitted to charges of sexual assault, drinking without a license and breaking and entering.
The next hearing is set for May 10.
tzriqat@thenational.ae
