Man threatened and assaulted woman after she rejected marriage proposal, Dubai court told

HA sent SA text messages in which he threatened to kill her if she did not pay him Dh50,000. He also trespassed into her house, assaulted and insulted her.

DUBAI // A man threatened to kill a woman after she turned down a marriage proposal and instead tied the knot with another suitor, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

Prosecutors said Emirati H A, 24, proposed to Emirati S A, 25, but she refused. After he discovered she had married another man, also an Emirati, H A sent S A text messages in which he threatened to kill her if she did not pay him Dh50,000.

He also trespassed in her house, assaulted and insulted her. H A faces charges of threatening to kill, issuing insults, trespassing and physical assault. S A said in her testimony that she met the defendant through his mother and he proposed to her, but she said no because he was younger than her.

“Two years ago, he assaulted me and I reported him to Sharjah police, but then dropped charges. In May last year, he called me and asked me to pay him Dh50,000,” she said.

She said H A sent her a text message that read: “The authority is in my hand, I can ruin you, I can go to your husband and ruin your life. I cut off your daughter’s finger and you could not say a word, I sent your husband to jail and I can do it again and send you also to jail if you don’t pay me Dh50,000.”

The woman said that on July 27 last year, H A entered her home without permission.

“It was about 11pm. He told me: ‘you think I can’t find you?’ He then punched me and kicked me all over my body,” said S A, who reported the incident to police the next morning.

Prosecutors said text messages, including threats, were found on S A’s phone, as well as demands that she pay money to the sender. A forensic report found that S A suffered bruises to the neck, chest and thighs as well as swelling around the eyes. H A denied the charges.