DUBAI // Four women who assaulted and insulted a taxi driver who did not allow them smoke in his cab have been sent to jail.
A video clip that was uploaded and shared on social media showed the Moroccan women drunkenly attacking and insulting A A at a petrol station in Al Barsha last month.
The driver said the women screamed at him when he told them they were not allowed to smoke inside the taxi.
When they refused to stop he asked to be paid, after which the women told him to stop at the petrol station.
The cabbie did, but they still refused to pay.
At the Dubai Midemeanours Court, the women were charged with drinking alcohol without a licence and assault, along with insulting a public employee – a policeman who was called to the scene.
A S, 38, was sentenced to six months in jail to be followed by deportation after she was convicted of assault.
The court also convicted her and M A, 24, K A, 36, and M F, 24, of drinking alcohol without a licence. They were each sentenced to a month in jail.
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