DUBAI // A woman was raped by a male friend and two of his friends, Dubai Criminal Court heard on Sunday.
Indian AD, 18, told prosecutors that on October 14 last year she received a call from her 24-year-old Bangladeshi friend MH at 8pm and he asked her to accompany him for a ride in his car.
She said he arrived at her building within minutes and that she was surprised to see two men in the car with him.
“I had seen one of them before but I had never seen the other,” said the victim.
She got in and her friend drove to Ajman, where the three men bought some alcohol and started drinking it in the car. They allegedly tried to force her into drinking with them but she refused.
MH then drove back to Dubai and parked his car in a sandy area in Al Muhaisnah, where the two friends got out of the vehicle, leaving her alone with her friend.
“He then asked me to have sex with him but when I refused he just took away my phone then forced me into the back seat of a Nissan Altima, which arrived after we parked. He undressed me then raped me,” said the woman.
The other men waited outside until MH was finished and then Pakistani friend MM, 28, got into the car’s back seat and rape her.
“I was in such a state of fear and shock that I couldn’t even resist,” she said.
Records show that the third suspect, who remains at large and is only identified as M, offered to drive her home after his friends had raped her. “I went with him and when we got to Al Qusais, he also raped me,” she said.
The teenager did not call police but two days after the incident she told her father about it and he reported the incident.
Emirati policeman HAM, 30, said that DNA test results confirmed that MH and MM had sex with the victim after samples were taken off the car’s back seat. A third DNA sample matched that of a man wanted by police for a hit and run incident in 2009.
The two arrested men were not present in court on Sunday to enter pleas against rape charges.
A verdict is due on February 16.
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