DUBAI // A man who told a court that he kissed a 13-year-old girl in a lift in a fatherly way has been jailed by Dubai Criminal Court.
Pakistani M B, 31, denied a charge of sexual assault after prosecutors said he had held the British girl’s face between his hands and kissed her cheek and lips on October 27 last year, reported a local daily.
The girl, G R, said she was on the ground floor of the building where she lived in Al Barsha and was using the lift to return to her family’s flat on the sixth floor when the defendant got in the lift.
She said that, when he grabbed her, she tried to get out at the third floor but said the man would not let her. She eventually managed to flee via a staircase and made her way to her mother, who was at the gym in the building.
“She was hysterical and shaking from fear and kept repeating that someone had kissed her,” said 34-year-old mother L H.
“I went outside with my daughter looking for this man, and when we didn’t find him I called building security and reported the incident.”
Police said in records that they tracked down the man through his car’s number plate, which they had obtained from camera footage.
