Straight arrow i guess you think that this is the womans fault for drinking then???
A BRITISH rape victim back home after a four-week nightmare in Dubai said last night: "My life's in ruins."
The petite 23-year-old was arrested after going to cops with her concerned fiance to report the sex attack.
But instead of listening sympathetically, laughing male cops TAUNTED her before THROWING them both in jail for two days.
She was not allowed to leave Dubai until she signed papers to say the rape had never happened.
In return, charges of having illegal sex with her fiance and drinking without a permit - which could have led to six years' jail - were dropped.
Now, back home four weeks later, she has SPLIT from her fiance because of all the stress and is awaiting HIV test results.
She said: "It's been hell. I'm trying to rebuild my life one day at a time."
Humiliated
The Muslim, a Londoner of Pakistani background, and her rich boyfriend, 44, flew out for their romantic break on New Year's Eve.
He proposed at five-star hotel The Address and when his thrilled girlfriend, who rarely drinks, said 'yes' they celebrated with two bottles of champagne.
Sozzled, she passed out on a sofa in the loos and later could only recall being followed inside by a waiter.
Next day, after examining herself, she realised she'd been raped.
She and her lover, who had NEVER had unprotected sex together, called cops.
She said: "I was taken into a room at the station with about five police officers, all men.
"I'd just told them I had been raped but they were asking me how many times I had sex in the hotel room with my boyfriend and what positions I preferred.
"They were sniggering. I was crying. I felt utterly humiliated. I was treated like a criminal, like filth."
She was slung into a women's prison late on New Year's Day without knowing why. They kept her in a filthy basement with 100 others. It had one loo.
Fearing pregnancy, she begged for the morning-after pill but was told it is illegal.
She was released shortly before her British boyfriend of Indian background and with whom she had a Muslim wedding last November.
They were barred from leaving Dubai and moved into another hotel where she barely left her room.
Four weeks later police offered to drop charges if she dropped the rape claim.
She said: "I was scared. I obviously still believe I was raped but the only way out was to sign something saying I wasn't, so I did it."
During the wait, she kept pills in her bag for a suicide attempt in case she was sent back to jail.
The Dubai authorities said the case was investigated fully and insisted it "didn't happen".
But the couple, back on Sunday, have now split.
The victim, who we are not naming, said: "We'd gone for a weekend break in the sun in Dubai because we were in love and it looked like paradise in brochures.
"It never occurred to us that, as an unmarried couple, we might end up in jail. It's all taken a terrible toll on my life."
Straight arrow i guess you think that this is the womans fault for drinking then???
A BRITISH rape victim back home after a four-week nightmare in Dubai said last night: "My life's in ruins."
The petite 23-year-old was arrested after going to cops with her concerned fiance to report the sex attack.
But instead of listening sympathetically, laughing male cops TAUNTED her before THROWING them both in jail for two days.
She was not allowed to leave Dubai until she signed papers to say the rape had never happened.
In return, charges of having illegal sex with her fiance and drinking without a permit - which could have led to six years' jail - were dropped.
Now, back home four weeks later, she has SPLIT from her fiance because of all the stress and is awaiting HIV test results.
She said: "It's been hell. I'm trying to rebuild my life one day at a time."
Humiliated
The Muslim, a Londoner of Pakistani background, and her rich boyfriend, 44, flew out for their romantic break on New Year's Eve.
He proposed at five-star hotel The Address and when his thrilled girlfriend, who rarely drinks, said 'yes' they celebrated with two bottles of champagne.
Sozzled, she passed out on a sofa in the loos and later could only recall being followed inside by a waiter.
Next day, after examining herself, she realised she'd been raped.
She and her lover, who had NEVER had unprotected sex together, called cops.
She said: "I was taken into a room at the station with about five police officers, all men.
"I'd just told them I had been raped but they were asking me how many times I had sex in the hotel room with my boyfriend and what positions I preferred.
"They were sniggering. I was crying. I felt utterly humiliated. I was treated like a criminal, like filth."
She was slung into a women's prison late on New Year's Day without knowing why. They kept her in a filthy basement with 100 others. It had one loo.
Fearing pregnancy, she begged for the morning-after pill but was told it is illegal.
She was released shortly before her British boyfriend of Indian background and with whom she had a Muslim wedding last November.
They were barred from leaving Dubai and moved into another hotel where she barely left her room.
Four weeks later police offered to drop charges if she dropped the rape claim.
She said: "I was scared. I obviously still believe I was raped but the only way out was to sign something saying I wasn't, so I did it."
During the wait, she kept pills in her bag for a suicide attempt in case she was sent back to jail.
The Dubai authorities said the case was investigated fully and insisted it "didn't happen".
But the couple, back on Sunday, have now split.
The victim, who we are not naming, said: "We'd gone for a weekend break in the sun in Dubai because we were in love and it looked like paradise in brochures.
"It never occurred to us that, as an unmarried couple, we might end up in jail. It's all taken a terrible toll on my life."
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