DUBAI // A 31-year-old driver who videoed a woman while she was using the toilet at her home has been jailed.
Prosecutors said Indian M F, 31, sexually assaulted compatriot M S, 42, on December 29 last year by lurking near her bathroom window and taking videos.
In records M S said she noticed a light at the window fan at around midnight. “When I saw the torch, I panicked and screamed at the top of my lungs.”
Her husband, H H, 32, rushed to see what happened.
“My wife was hysterical, she told me that she saw a camera flash and that she thought someone photographed her.”
H H ran outside their villa and saw M F near the window.
“I saw the defendant, he looked scared,” said the husband, who works as a driver.
H H told prosecutors that he confronted M F about taking pictures.
“He admitted to taking pictures of my wife and I asked him to hand me his mobile,” he continued.
M F told the husband that he had thrown it in a rubbish bin before going with H H to find it.
“There was a video of my wife lifting her dress and showing her legs. It also showed my wife lowering her underwear,” H H told prosecutors.
The husband called police and reported the incident.
A report said M F’s mobile phone contained a video of a woman in a bathroom. At the Dubai Criminal Court, he denied a charge of sexual assault and invasion of privacy but was sentenced to three months in jail, to be followed by deportation.
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