Man who assaulted maids won’t go to jail

Prosecutors lost their appeal against a suspended jail term handed to an accountant for sexually assaulting two maids while they cleaned his Al Nahda home in August last year.

Dubai Criminal Court ordered the Iranian man’s deportation, but it was delayed when prosecutors filed an appeal for the man to serve his three-month sentence in prison.

Records show the two victims arrived at 3pm on the day of the assaults.

One of the Filipinas, 24, said: “I took the bedrooms and she took the kitchen. Ten minutes later she advised that I be careful because the customer had touched her.”

She said that a few minutes later, the man entered the room where she was cleaning and touched her inappropriately several times. He then left to find her colleague.

“He started a chat and said I was doing an excellent job, then placed his hand on my back before suddenly touching the lower part of my body,” said the second maid, 29.

The women both said they turned down the man’s advances and tried to finish the work more quickly.

“As we tried to leave, he grabbed me by the breast and I screamed at him and ran out,” one of them said.

The defendant denied a charge of sexual assault.

He will now be deported immediately, after the sentence was upheld by Dubai Court of Appeals.