DUBAI // An expatriate got drunk, scaled the wall of an Emirati family’s villa and wandered into their living room – to the horror of the owner’s daughters.
Briton C S, 27, had been drinking at a hotel on August 2 before taking a taxi home.
“I found myself in the house of a strange family and I don’t know how I got there because I was drunk,” he said.
He said a man assaulted him while he was in the yard of the house, in Al Safa, before police took him away.
The villa’s Emirati owner, Armed Forces member S S, 44, said he was in his bedroom when he heard his daughters screaming in the living room at 3.30am.
He and his 18-year-old son rushed through and detained the Briton, who said he had scaled the villa’s wall by mistake.
“He said he was sorry and tried to run away. We smelled alcohol on him,” the Emirati said.
The Briton was charged with drinking alcohol without a licence and with trespassing, but the trespassing charge was not filed.
He pleaded guilty to the alcohol charge at Dubai Misdemeanours Court and was fined Dh1,000.
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