Man sentenced in two cases now charged in a third as well
Man sentenced in two cases now charged in a third as well. (SUPPLIED)
The Pakistani bus driver, OKN, 28, is accused of impersonating a policeman and kidnapping and raping women.
Policeman Khalid Ahmad Abdi, 29, testified before the Prosecution on Tuesday that the police received a number of complaints from women who had been kidnapped and raped by a man dressed as a policeman.
The last complaint was filed by MT, 27, a Bengali housemaid who testified that when as was walking home at about 1am on January 12, 2008, a man driving a minibus tried to talk to her.
“Then he stopped the bus and walked towards me. He told me he works for the Residency and Foreigners Affairs Department. He was wearing a police fluorescent jacket and an ID card around his neck.
As I was terrified I did not look carefully at the card. He asked me to ride with him to the police station in order to check my residency status. Instead of heading to a police station, he drove to Al Wasl road,” MT said.
She testified that she got a shock when the ‘policeman’ asked her to kiss him.
“I refused. He continued driving and parked the bus in a narrow isolated area between two walls in Jumeirah.
He asked me to kiss him again and when I refused he started molesting and sexually assaulting me.
When I resisted, he slapped me and held me at the neck. Suddenly, there was a flash. A man came and fought with him and I ran away.”
A medical report showed that MT had been abused and that there were fresh scratches on her neck, nose, left ear and a bruise on her left shoulder.
Abdi testified that all the women who complained said that the attacker drove a bus and wore a florescent police jacket.
The police launched a search for the bus based on plate numbers provided by the victims.
They zeroed in on OKN, 28, and arrested him. He was then identified by the complainants in an identification parade.
The accused is currently serving two jail terms after his conviction in other two separate cases for similar accusations.
In the first case he was awarded a 10-year jail term followed by deportation on June 15 for kidnaping, raping and impersonating a public employee.
The sentence was upheld by the Appeal Court on August 29.
In the second case the accused was awarded a six-month jail term followed by deportation for rape, kidnap attempt and impersonation on October 29, 2009.
The accused denied the accusations and pleaded not guilty before the court, although he had confessed before the police.
The case was adjourned until October 12 and the court will assign the accused a defence lawyer.
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