'Adultery' in Dubai mum's husband is a cheat!
More twists and turns than a game of snakes and ladders..................Who is right and who is wrong ??
Update from a tabloid in the UK...
Falsely accused of adultery by her husband, she was found guilty on suspect evidence and imprisoned by a court in Dubai – without being allowed to say anything in her defence.
Yet today The Sunday Mirror can reveal that it was her hypocrite husband Ihab El Labban who was cheating on HER.
We have discovered he had an 18-month fling with an American mother of two. Yet under draconian Sharia Law, it is Marnie who now cowers behind bars, weeping for sons Ziad, seven and Laith, four, who she fears she won’t see again until they are adults.
Last week in a double blow she learned she has lost custody of the boys and that she is likely to be deported back to Britain when she is freed.
Last night in a dramatic intervention the respected human rights charity Amnesty International said in a statement: “It is extraordinary that in 2009 a woman could be jailed for adultery.
“This is the first case we know of where a British woman has been locked up in Dubai for adultery – and there must be no more. Marnie Pearce should be released immediately. Amnesty is dismayed that from the outset Marnie has had so little support from her own government.”
Amnesty, who have adopted Marnie as a “prisoner of conscience”, insist her plight should be a priority for British diplomats. Yet her friends and supporters say it “barely registers” on the Foreign Office radar.
Marnie, 40, is adamant that she NEVER cheated on El Labban, 41 – and says he fabricated a case against her to win custody of the boys after she threw him out over his infidelity.
Our investigation has discovered that the Egyptian businessman was having an affair with US businesswoman Tonya Thompson, 46, who he met at a sales conference in Dubai in October 2007.
They spent a week together in the Gulf state, then the following month he flew to America to spend 10 days with her.
Tonya wrote a gushing two-page love-letter to him on notepaper from the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco saying: “I can not stop thinking about you and the lovely time we spent together.
“My two favourite memories were the first day at the beach and the last day at our very special place having a quiet dinner together under the moon. And of course the amazing nights in between.”
In an apparent reference to El Labban’s marriage – she adds: “I still find it amazing when I think of all you have sacrificed for me to show your true feelings. I love you.”
Discovering that letter devastated Marnie. It was the bitter end to a romance that began in 1997 after she moved from Bracknell, Berks to work as a florist at the Intercontinental Hotel in Muscat, Oman.
El Labban was a high-flying executive for a drugs firm. The pair started dating and married in the Seychelles on September 29, 1999. They moved to Dubai in 2002 and El Labban climbed the corporate ladder, landing a job at Procter and Gamble.
As well as a luxury home in Dubai, Marnie had a five-bedroom holiday home and five investment flats in Egypt.
But her world fell apart on December 14, 2007, when she found the love letter in El Labban’s computer case.
She threw him out at once, but claims he then flew Tonya back to Dubai and that the pair stayed at the deluxe Shangri-La Braa Al Jissah Resort in Oman in February last year. He even introduced his sons to his mistress.
In March last year, he launched his campaign to have Marnie jailed for adultery – which enabled him to win custody of the boys.
He had arranged for their maid to contact him if any man ever called at the house, and on March 27 he was joined by local police as he burst into the villa – and found Marnie having a cup of tea with fellow Briton Brian Clark, who was using her computer to email home.
The pair were arrested, locked up for six hours and interrogated about their “affair”.
Four months later, detectives told Marnie they had seized five used condoms, a pair of men’s underpants and a man’s jacket – all handed to them by El Labban.
Prosecutors demanded Marnie give a DNA sample – and ruled two of the condoms matched her DNA.
But they never called Brian back to Dubai to check on his DNA and Marnie insists the condoms were ones she had used with her husband. While detectives investigated, Marnie spent months with her children in a filthy refuge called the City Of Hope Shelter.
She was found guilty of adultery in November and later sentenced to three months in prison. Despite protesting her innocence to her solicitor she was not allowed to speak in court – or mention El Labban’s affair.
El Labban said yesterday: “Whether I had an affair or not it is my private life. And that has nothing to do with you. Marnie can says whatever she likes. She went through a trial with a lawyer and was found guilty. She got what she deserved.”
Full story: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/03/29/adultery-in-dubai-mu...
First one marries an Arab.
Then the BIG mistake to live here knowing such laws prevail.
I do not understand why the he** after marring in such circumstances one does not live in any Democratic country where interests of spouces from diff cultures are taken care of without being biased.
I think that both Marnie and Ehab have learned to exploit the media - and their children - to advance their own position.
Mandi
Even tabloids can be sued for defamation.. hence, i'm sure that most of what they've written is true..
As Penny said, there are always two sides..
fubar, I'm saying that we don't know. British tabloids will always say that the British woman is an innocent mother that did nothing wrong, and that the crazy Arab took away her children.
The other thread about Marnie and Ehab had much more information and another opinion, it even included some of the court information and some of the presented proof.
I still say that we will probably never know what really happened, and there's no objective source of information.
always two sides.
My thoughts are my own, but I doubt my Mum would agree with some of them.
I didn't see the bit where the mother did something wrong. Can someone fill me in?
Now, what a bloody suprise.........NOT!
Probably you would bleu, but I believe the English one. I've heard this story before. Easiest thing a man can do here to get custody of the kids, say the mother committed adultry.
Nice photo "Ihab El Labban and Tonya Thompson", they just put two photos side by side, not even minimal photoshop effort to make it look like they took the photo together.
Did you see the video on the website. My heart is breaking for those poor little boys. I hope that man rots in hell for what he has done to those kids and their mother. those babies were screaming for their mother, and that heartless prick put them in the car and drove away. They will always hate their father for that.
Motherhood...The hardest job you'll ever love! : )
Gypsy, I would guess they're both at fault, I don't rely on tabloids for information. I'm sure somebody could find an Egyptian tabloid that shows the opposite story.
How is she at fault Brit? Her husband is using Dubai's archaic laws to get custody of the children and seperate them from her forever.
Hope the bastard gets what he deserves.
Got to agree with you there..Both sides seem to be at fault and obviously the children will suffer..
What would we do without the UK tabloids! You just gotta click on the link, the pictures are priceless.
Mandi