Worker films man in shower to blackmail him for sex

dubai — A 21-year-old man allegedly secretly filmed another man while taking a shower and used the clip to blackmail the victim into having sex with him, a court heard on Thursday.

Public prosecution records show the Pakistani worker peeped into the other worker while in the shower and secretly filmed him at their accommodation in Jebel Ali. He then threatened to circulate his clip online unless he had sex with him.

He has been charged in the Court of First Instance with sexual assault on another man’s privacy and using social media and technology to blackmail and threaten the victim and breach his privacy.

The defendant admitted during the investigation that he secretly filmed the victim while the latter was taking a shower with his mobile phone. He then opened a Facebook account and sent a message to the victim with the clip and photos and threatened he would circulate them unless he befriended him and had sex with him.

The complainant, a 21-year-old Pakistani, said he received a message on Facebook in May from a man. “The message contained a clip of me taking a shower in the bathroom inside my labour accommodation. The sender threatened he would circulate it unless I befriended him and had a sexual relation with him.” He talked to him and then met near a supermarket in the Dubai Investment Park.

“He told me he filmed me as he wanted to have sex with me,” the complainant told the prosecutor.

The phone, used by the defendant to film the victim, was seized and deposited at the public prosecution.

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