Former NA candidate rapes woman in office

KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti girl complained that a man who had fought elections in the last National Assembly Council raped her in his office in Hawally, security sources said. A friend of hers, also a Kuwaiti girl, backed her claim and said she saw the former candidate in the NA Council elections in a naked state when she intervened to rescue her friend. The security men responded swiftly to the report and rushed to the place of incident, where they found a girl with a head injury and torn clothes. She was administered necessary medical care.

The girl who reported the crime, a friend of the victim, said that she and her friend went to an office in Hawally where her friend went inside the office of the suspect while she waited outside. Minutes later, she heard her shouting and calls for help. She rushed into the office and found her friend lying on the floor and the man in a completely naked state.

While she rescued her friend, she also said that the man was drunk. The victim said that she was brutally beaten when she called for help from the employees and her friend. A case of rape was filed and the man was detained.

The same suspect is also facing a trial in a court in another case in which he stands accused of beating his divorced wife and assaulting her after invited her to his yacht on the pretext that he wanted to discuss matters related to divorce.