Deliveryman saves lady from being abducted

DUBAI: The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced an Asian gang to 3 years in jail to be followed by deportation ater serving their sentences, ater they were convicted of atempting to kidnap their partner’s sister and killing her, before a deliveryman intervened and rescued her.

The details of the case date back to December 2021, when a delivery man filed a report alerting that a woman in the International City was kidnapped by compatriots. He added in the interrogations that he saw some persons stopping a woman on the road and threatening her with electric shocks to force her to accompany them, against her will.

The police arrested the suspects, and one of them turned out to be the victim’s brother.

During interrogations, two suspects confessed that the victim’s brother brought them from their home country to help him kidnap his sister, in return for Dhs15,000 each. Each of them reportedly received Dhs5,000, a flight ticket, and an apartment to stay in.

The suspect confessed that he planned to force his sister to return the money she had borrowed from him, and that they rented a vehicle from a compatriot in return for Dhs2000 per month.

He added they changed the vehicle plate numbers to use it safely in monitoring the victim, and on the day of the incident they saw her heading to her workplace where they commited their crime.

He planned the crime and brought the other suspects to help him, but their crime was thwarted ater the deliveryman intervened and saved the victim, he confessed.

Moreover, a gang of four East European women forced a girl of the same nationality to work as a prostitute ater luring her into the UAE to work as a saleswoman. The court sentenced two of them to three years in jail and the other two to three months to be followed by deportation.

The case dated back to november last year when the Criminal Investigation Department received a tip-off that a girl under 18 was being exploited to work as a prostitute by a group of women.

According to the statement of a police man stated in the investigations that a team of detectives set a trap to arrest the gang red-handed.