Man Threatens Woman With Genies

‘Genie man’ jailed for threatening woman

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01/06/2009 12:01 AM | By Bassam Za’ za’, Senior Reporter

Dubai: A driver has been jailed for threatening to drive a woman crazy with the help of genies and to send her corpse back home in a body bag if she refused to marry him.

Records said the 31-year-old Tunisian woman claimed that the 47-year-old Syrian convict terrorised her and threatened to summon genies, whom he said will “intimidate her to madness before killing her and sending her to her hometown as a corpse if she didn’t marry him”.

The accused, M.S., will spend three months behind prison bars before being deported, as declared by the Dubai Court of First Instance recently.

Public Prosecution records show that M.S. appealed the initial verdict on the last day of 2008.

He was charged with threatening to kill the woman, breaching her privacy and modesty in a public place and abusing a telecommunication system, etisalat services, by repeatedly phoning her…