For those in the back, Markus broke the law by having non marital sex with a teen under the age of 18.
He was condoned by his parents for having a fling with a girl who could not introduce him to her parents.
This with a girl who looked more like the natives of Dubai than Markus does and where there are more people who look like Markus in Dubai as slaves than as tourists at any time.
If there is a mother to be blamed, I blame the mother of Markus.
She supported her son going off piste and not being able to contain his front on a short family holiday.
Unlike the UK majority, average Black people do not support that slackness, despite the cultural coddling of stupid/wicked behaviour of too many of our males compared to the expectations we have for the girls and women.
He didn't pay for the holiday and he was allowed to bring back a girl he did not know to have sex
in a room his parents paid for.
Sorry, but that is the height of slack parenting anywhere, much less on holiday in Dubai.
A parent is meant to protect a child from their own folly.
And if I'm really being honest;I don't think that his parents would have been so willing to lose their sense if it was a Black girl he was having a secret fucktionship, I mean relationship with who he did not know from Adam.
THAT'S the racial angle that jumps out for me, as a Black parent.
So what if the Indian woman doesn't response for a Black youth stupid enough to break Dubai law and one of her motivations may be race?
I cannot assume that the Indian mother who did not allow her daughter a boyfriend would have acted different if it was an Indian of age who had sex with her then underage daughter.
And as the adult in that situation, it is the adult who gets charged for having non marital sex in Dubai.
And it is that he is being charged with as Romeo and Juliet clauses do not exist in Dubai non marital sex age of consent laws.
And I know for damn sure that a bunch of women are not suggesting that somebody who cannot legally consent to sex in Dubai, suddenly can , just because thirteen year olds in the UK can avail themselves of our slack age of consent laws?
This is the social quandry that occurs when Black males are considered victims in any.shitty situation that they put themselves in.
The rights of girls and women go right out the window and circular reasoning becomes the thing.
What we do know is that he broke the law.
His parents condoned him breaking the law.
The mother of the girl, who the girl did not/could not introduce to her parents, not because he is Black, but because she is not allowed a boyfriend....this mother, when back in London discovered evidence of Markus breaking Dubai law on her daughter, on the daughter's phone.
Markus, still in Dubai on holiday with his family is arrested and charged by Dubai police after said strict mother reported him breaking the law.
This is one of those oned where slagging the mother or Dubai is just going to make them stand stronger ten toes down.
The mother is obviously not of the " my kids can fuck under my roof because I'd rather it here than anywhere else/ Boyfriends and girlfriends of my kids can stay over" Mumsnet cohort.
And Dubai is Dubai.
More diplomatic, nimble, non emotional minds will be the ones to get this young man out of Dubai jail.
He has learned the hard way that there is nothing wrong with sexual discipline and being somebody's dirty secret is not a challenge, but a sign of low self worth.
I never went on family holidays, especially those I never paid my own passage and board for with the thought of seeking sex at the forefront of my mind.