ABU DHABI // A woman has denied sending an offensive WhatsApp message to her husband’s ex-wife because she was bad-mouthing her.
K, from Jordan, was accused by her husband’s ex-wife, A, of sending her an insult and was sentenced in absentia to six months in prison followed by deportation.
K then requested a retrial – a right granted to every person sentenced in absentia.
“So you are used to sending her preachy messages I suppose?” asked the Appeals Court chief justice Dr Khairi Al Kabbash.
She said that the number the message was sent from did not belong to her, despite being a Jordanian number.
The court asked if the two women had disagreements in the past.
“I heard from others she went around bad-mouthing me, she told people I was the reason she got divorced. But this is not true. I married him a long time after she was divorced from him,” K said.
“There is no evidence to prove that the WhatsApp number the message was sent from belonged to me,” she said.
“There is one thing we can do to resolve this,” said the chief justice.
“We can assign an IT expert to determine if the number the WhatsApp message was sent from belonged to you or not.”
K agreed to the proposal.
The case was adjourned until December 21 to prepare the IT expert’s report.
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