Six sent to 3 years in jail for robbing hotel guest

dubai — Four men and two women, who robbed a hotel guest of his money, have each been sentenced to three years imprisonment. The gang robbed him after forcing him to reveal the code of his safe.

According to public prosecution records, the six Nigerians had lured the victim through a woman into a massage date at a hotel apartment. He was then locked up and made to give them his hotel room key.

The Court of First Instance convicted all of them of charges of illegal confinement and deprivation of freedom, forcible theft, making criminal threats and blackmail, sexual assault and breaching others’ privacy.

The court ordered the deportation of all of them after completing their jail sentences.

The Al Barsha police received the complaint on September 12,

They held him up against his will and forced him to undress and give them the key to his hotel room, along with the code to the safe inside his room.” Police lieutenant

2017. “The complainant said he had been in contact with a woman who pretended to be an Emirati. But when he went to meet her in the hotel room, he only saw an African woman and her friends. They held him up against his will and forced him to undress and give them the key to his hotel room, along with the code to the safe inside his room,” a police lieutenant said.

The police nabbed the defendants from the same hotel where they locked the victim up. The accused had admitted that they had committed several similar offences.