Woman jailed for biting Dubai police officer after asking for her ID
24-year-old African woman was sentenced to three months in prison taken after by deportation for physically assaulting a police officer who halted her to check her ID, KhaleejTimes Reported.
The Court of First Instance heard the 24-year-old Ugandan woman, who is staying illegally in the nation, fiercely resisted a trainee policeman and bit his right hand on October 24, 2017.
He had stopped her in the Naif area with three other officers, including a female corporal.
"I admit I showed resistance and assaulted him but I had no idea they were police officers," the defendant told the court. She claimed before the presiding judge she thought she was being harassed then.
The policeman who was ambushed told the prosecutor: "It was before 10am when I was on obligation as an individual from a security team allocated with searching for and getting needed people and suspects. There were additionally two lieutenants and a female corporal strolling around with me in Freej Iyal Nasser. We detected the respondent and got suspicious of her exercises.
"We stopped her to check whether she had a legal status here and showed her our police IDs. But she fiercely resisted and bit me in my right wrist. I had to go to the hospital to get treated for the injury."
A police lieutenant said the lady was alluded to the Naif police headquarters after she ambushed the other cop. "She would not comply with our request to create her ID. She at that point bit his hand."
The respondent conceded amid people in general indictment examination she opposed the cops upon the arrival of the episode and that she was outstaying with a terminated visa.
The court will pronounce a ruling on January 30, 2018.
/ Source: khaleejtimes
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