To think this mother should be ashamed of herself

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly2zq1yl0ko

17yr old girl & 18 yr old boy hook up on holiday in Dubai. I believe they may have met over there. The girls mother finds messages on the girls phone when they return to the UK. The mother reports the guy to Dubai police. He gets arrested as sex with anyone under 18yrs is illegal in Dubai. He has now been sentenced to 1 year in prison.

I haven't looked into it much, as far as I can tell it was consensual, a charity called Detained in Dubai have been trying to help (legally I think).

Am I alone in thinking how bloody spiteful the mother is?!? The girl is 17 years old and I think in another report saw that she turned 18 shortly after returning.

How did those pictures get leaked, they look like they’re are taken at immigration/passport control at Dubai airport

And the boy's Dad? Does he hold no responsibility?

His parents knew about her and didn’t advise him to stop fucking around before he found out… and found out he did.

Yanbu, she's an awful person and has done an awful thing to this boy

I thought same, but l dont think it says what ethnicity the girl and her mother are.

Don’t get your knickers in a twist over semantics. BOTH parents then 😄

In the UK, underage victims, witnesses and perpetrators of sexual crimes have their identities protected by law. Whether that protection stretches to crimes committed abroad I'm not sure. But even if it doesn't, news organizations would almost certainly have policies that forbid naming.

I would hate to be the mother that had putting this boy in jail on my conscience.. but HIS mother should have taught him better.

Taught him better? It was a consensual relationship between two youngsters in the same year. A holiday romance. The only mistake he made was not looking up the laws in that backwards country before he went on holiday.

There’s a GoFundMe for Marcus that I have donated to. It will be little consolation to him I’m sure, but I hope he ends up rich and, once he’s free, is given the media space to share his story.

They would be very foolish to holiday in Dubai.

neither the public nor the police would have cared. Only a draconian society would pursue this.

I feel really sorry for this poor boy and his family. The girl's mother has been very vindictive. I've got a policy of not holidaying in countries with punitive legal regimes, and this is a very good example of why I feel that way.

It’s unfair based on our laws but he wasn’t within our laws.

however everyone needs to research the laws of the country they’re visiting.

I mean there’s nothing more to it

Yes taught him better than to have a sexual relationship with a girl who’s parents would didsaprove of him. As a mother of a black boy, I know fully well how dangerous this is.

I’m very uncomfortable with the girl’s identity being made public.

It’s a good example of why people shouldn’t willingly holiday in countries with poor human rights records.

This 100%. Why would anyone want to go? Why would anyone want to support places where human rights violations are rife?

Yes, he broke the law in Dubai but come on, there was no need to have this lad jailed. Her daughter must be ashamed of her mother.

Do you have a link to these pictures on twitter?

Im guessing you have read up on life in a Dubai prison
Happy with the strip searches and internals
Happy with being so young in an adult male jail
Happy with loss of liberty sharing 8-30 men in a cell
Happy with the sheer terror

Do you think he will ever forget this and ‘make some money from this experience’. What are you on about 🤯

What about his poor parents too
Who gives a toss about about the mother and her family.
The girls not to blame but she knew her families rules and she broke them. The least she could do was delete the blooding messages.

How would he know that though? Meet the parents before having any kind of relationship with her? It was a holiday romance, how was he to know she had a spiteful bitch as a mother?

The two young people may have been of legal age in the UK to have sex but they should have been made aware of the different laws in other countries, especially in Muslim countries .
Muslim countries have very different attitudes towards sex outside of marriage and this young couple should have been made aware of the laws on this subject before they decided to indulge.
It's tough on the young man, but he broke the law of Dubai and as such he should face the appropriate legal penalty as decided by the legal system over there.
And once he's released from prison, come straight back to the UK and never set foor in Dubai again !

If you type his name into the search bar on Twitter, it is the first post that comes up.

If you are a "mother of a black boy" I highly doubt you know everything your child gets up to for most of the day. Be careful of assuming virtue by judging others on their worst day.

But you bought up an interesting side point about racism in having to be more aware of personal interactions than prehaps the majority race, because they will be judged more harshly even by people who are in the same situation to you.

Hopefully they will use it to support him in jail.
He will need money to buy basics there.