Coach blackmails shooting champion

THREATENS TO GO PUBLIC WITH SEX VIDEOS ON SOCIAL MEDIA

The coach was summoned to the police station and was made to sign an undertaking not to blackmail the woman. However, he did not keep his word.

Aformer shooting champion and her coach have been accused of having consensual sex, after the coach blackmailed her and threatened to post their sex videos on social media.

The Emirati former sports star was allegedly involved in a sexual affair with the Lebanese man, who used to coach her at a private club in Dubai between 2014 and 2015. According to court records, when she decided to stop seeing him, the latter blackmailed her and coerced her into continuing with the affair. He threatened to post online videos of them having sex.

Even when the woman was apprehended by the anti-narcotics police for her involvement in a drug case, the coach continued to threaten her, saying he would upload the intimate videos and her nude images on social media. It was then that the woman [while still in detention] complained to the police about the blackmailing and the threats.

The coach was summoned to the police station and was made to sign an undertaking not to blackmail the woman. However, he did not keep his word and threatened the woman yet again.

Prosecutors accused the Emirati woman and the Lebanese man of having consensual sex and also accused the coach of blackmailing the woman.

The suspects appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance, where they admitted to having consensual sex. However, while the man denied blackmailing the former champion, the woman told prosecutors: “We fell in love and had consensual sex in several places across Dubai. We used to film each other while having sex and used to exchange those videos on WhatsApp. When I decided to break up with him, he started blackmailing me. Later, my mother found out about our affair and we notified the police. [But] He didn’t stop blackmailing me even when I was detained in a drug case.”

The trial continues.