Rowdy motorist beats cops, jailed

DUBAI:A rowdy motorist who used a parking allocated for people of determination and beat up policemen for intervening will spend three years in jail, a jury has decided.

The unemployed Arab, 35, kicked an Omani policeman, 29, and punched his Comorian colleague, 23, who had been dispatched to chase him away from the special parking around 5am on April 27.

They sustained injuries that took days to heal. He also hurled insults at them and smashed the rear right window of their patrol vehicle, according to their complaints at the Bur Dubai Police Station.

Both told police and prosecutors that A trafic oficer CONTACTED THE operations room about an ongoing problem at the café of a 5-star hotel on Sheikh Zayed Road. Police dispatched them to the scene.

THE oficer told them THE DEFENDANT was driving around in his GMC Sierra making a lot of noise before pulling over in a parking space allocated for the differently abled. And that he was under Alcohol Inluence.

The policeman talked to the café owner to call the defendant out of the café. Upon getting out the policeman’s colleague asked him for his driving LICENCE AND VEHICLE ownership CERTIICATE.

He said he only had an Emirates ID and contended that his driving licence was Coniscated AFTER Accumulating trafic violations. HE then SAID THE ID was inside his vehicle at the parking lot.

He begged them to allow him to fetch it. He stood and spoke pretending to be sober.

He was walking when he lost balance and fell. He feared they had detected he was drunk. He set off running.

The colleague chased him and caught him after falling again. He resisted and tried to stop them from shackling him and fought hard in a bid to escape. They managed to shackle his left hand.

The colleague tried to enter him in the patrol vehicle. He punched him under the right eye. He then kicked the policeman for trying to enter him inside. The policeman sustained shoulder and chest injuries.

HE Also CHARGED At THE trafic oficer. They summoned for a support patrol. They joined hands to shackle him and enter him inside. Nonetheless, he iercely resisted AND SMASHED THE rear door window.

The policeman added that he also sustained a minor injury on the right knee besides back pains. He and his colleague ended up at Rashid Hospital for treatment. The colleague gave a similar complaint.