Ex-boyfriend leaves battered woman in desert

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DUBAI • A wealthy British businessman has allegedly confessed to beating his former girlfriend and dumping her in the Dubai desert on the day she disappeared.

Mark Arnold, 42, has insisted to police that Kerry Winter was alive and well when he left her two weeks ago and that he has no idea where she is now. The missing women’s family have received a series of text messages from her mobile telephone saying she is alive and asking about the police investigation. However, they now suspect the messages were sent by someone else.

Arnold, from the Midlands, flew to Britain two days after Winter vanished on August 20. He returned to Dubai three days later and was arrested. Friends claim that Winter, 35, had accused her former lover of stalking her in the weeks before her disappearance and that she had been forced to move home three times.

Neighbours told police they saw her being beaten with a baseball bat outside her villa in the Al Barsha suburb. When they tried to intervene, they were also attacked and chased away.

The attacker then bundled a bleeding Winter into her car and drove off. The car was later found abandoned.

Arnold, a director of a leading Middle East design company, has been charged with assaulting Winter.

The body of a woman found in the desert last morning was not linked to the case, officers said.

Winter, an events organiser from Johannesburg, South Africa has lived in the Arab emirate for seven years. She had been with Arnold for five years.

By QT• 4 Sep 2008 11:39
QT

:(

By Mercia• 4 Sep 2008 11:37
Mercia

who is the poor woman found in the desert then?

By janeyjaney• 4 Sep 2008 11:34
janeyjaney

What a c*nt. I hope he gets beaten w/ a metal bat too.. oh and he should be left in the barren desert to die.

By QT• 4 Sep 2008 11:29
QT

I hope he gets the death penalty!

By owen• 4 Sep 2008 11:23
owen

[img_assist|nid=12867|link=none|align=left|width=|height=0]Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

By mjamille28• 4 Sep 2008 11:02
mjamille28

hmm you're right... they should castrate him first and let him bleed to death and then hang him....

By someonenew• 4 Sep 2008 11:00
someonenew

MJ Hanging him is too nice a punishment for him. He shud be beatedn up and left in the desert to die.

I dream of a better tomorrow where Chickens can cross the Road without having their motives questioned - Unknown

By mjamille28• 4 Sep 2008 10:51
mjamille28

agree with you, FS..

By Formatted Soul• 4 Sep 2008 10:49
Formatted Soul

Most of the mental disorders are the result of their early living conditions..and upbringing. Neglected childhood...physical torture by parents etc..can lead to such disorders..

By mjamille28• 4 Sep 2008 10:45
mjamille28

like i said,.. i hope they hang him, if he's ever found guilty...

By mjamille28• 4 Sep 2008 10:42
mjamille28

when someone experienced too much violence, etc during childhood, it does something to the brain,..

By Bahraini83• 4 Sep 2008 10:39
Bahraini83

sadist ... do u think that some1 can be sadist becuase of the way he lived...atmosphere?or is it a mental problem that has nothing to do with how ppl. being raised?

By Formatted Soul• 4 Sep 2008 10:37
Formatted Soul

A sane person can never do such things... he must be having some psychological problem...or he is a sadist.

By mjamille28• 4 Sep 2008 10:29
mjamille28

having sh*t for brains,..that's what leads a man to behave like that,...

By r7• 4 Sep 2008 10:29
Rating: 5/5
r7

That's really sad when some 1 can't let go n gets so extreme with a person who he must've loved a lot at some point of time !!

By britexpat• 4 Sep 2008 10:26
britexpat

I posted an update on the other thread about South Africans looking to help find her..

Apparently, she accused him of stalking her.

He says that he did beat her, but then left her alive and well near the desert.. (see other thread)

http://www.qatarliving.com/node/188872

By QT• 4 Sep 2008 10:21
QT

:/

By Bahraini83• 4 Sep 2008 10:19
Bahraini83

poor lady .. what do u people think leads a man to behave like this??

By QT• 4 Sep 2008 10:16
Rating: 2/5
QT

...that she's still alive, but I very much doubt it!

:(

By azilana7037• 4 Sep 2008 10:15
azilana7037

about women abuses yesterday?

By mjamille28• 4 Sep 2008 10:12
mjamille28

tsk tsk tsk... :(

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