Airline staff sentenced to jail in Dubai over phone texts

New York City News.Net
Thursday 18th March, 2010

A British couple has been dealt with by a Dubai court in a trial which has seen them sent to jail for three months.

They have been sentenced to three-months in jail for sending erotic text messages to each other.

The Indian man and woman, working in Dubai, were sentenced after a judge ruled they had planned to "commit sin", which is a reference to extramarital sex.

The judge said there was not enough evidence to determine whether the man and the woman had actually had an affair, which could have brought a harsher sentence.

Extramarital sex is illegal in the United Arab Emirates.

The pair, aged 47 and 42, were working as cabin crew for Dubai's Emirates airline.

Last year, the texts were brought to light in a divorce case, in which the woman's estranged husband gave evidence.

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