‘Man finds solace in drugs as wife starts going out with men’
abu dhabi — A young man resorted to drugs to get rid of the stress after his wife started misbehaving and going out with other men to nightclubs, a court has heard. The Emirati man is facing trial at the Abu Dhabi Criminal Court of First Instance for consuming drugs and assaulting his wife.
Official court documents stated that the Emirati met the Arab woman while on a visit to a foreign country. She was working in a coffee shop and the two started dating.
The man later brought the woman to the UAE and the pair got married. The couple initially lived in the same villa with the Emirati’s family including her brothers and mother.
The Emirati, whose work involved a lot of travels within in the UAE and outside the country, later rented a separate house where they shifted after the woman complained that she was tired of living in the same house with her in-laws.
He reportedly started getting information from some friends that his wife was moving out with young men and also attended nightclubs.
The young man refused to believe in the rumours until one day when he caught the woman in an Abu Dhabi night club.
The man said he loved his wife and had continuously talked to her to reform so they could raise their small girls together but in vain. And because of these family problems, the man allegedly resorted to using drugs.
One day, he took his wife to a desert to have some moment together and see how they could find a solution to their problems.
An argument then broke out which made the pair exchange abusive words and the man assaulted his wife.
Later, the woman lodged a complaint with the police and reported that her took her to a desert and assaulted her after consuming narcotics.
Police detained the man after medical report confirmed that he consumed drugs.
The man admitted to using drugs but denied assaulting the woman.
The trial was adjourned until May.
I continuously talked to her to reform so that we could raise our small girls together but in vain.” Suspect testifies