Brit teen jailed in Dubai for sex with girl after freed sheikh’s pardon
Marcus Fakana, 18, jailed for ‘holiday romance’ with 17-year-old, receives royal pardon and is back in the UK, say supporters. An 18-year-old who was sentenced to a year in a Dubai prison for having sex with a 17-year-old British girl (who was only a month younger than him) whilst they were on holiday has been released and […]
British teen who was jailed in Dubai over sex with girl makes plea
A British teenager jailed in Dubai for having sex with a 17-year-old girl who has since turned 18. Marcus who was 18 at the time of the “crime” plead with the authorities for clemency. Marcus Fakana, now 19, of Tottenham, north London, was sentenced in December to a year’s imprisonment after a consensual relationship with […]
British woman arrested for drugs charges just weeks after arriving.
The family of a British woman are pleading for her return as she spends her third month in a “Hellhole” prison in Dubai on suspected drugs charges. Isabella Daggett, 21, from Leeds, had recently moved to the United Arab Emirates after landing a recruitment consultancy job. Her family say she was arrested in March after […]
Brit dad given 40 years in Dubai prison for cocaine possession
Sam Dorman, 33, from Glossop, Derbyshire was arrested after a police sting last week. UAE police allegedly found him with only half a gram of cocaine. Police later found what they believe is 28 grams of the drug at his home in Dubai. In the UK the street value of 28 grams of coke is […]
