Marcus Fakana sentenced to a year in prison

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I cannot believe that this lad is going to spend a year in prison- yes, I know that’s the law there, he should have known better etc, etc
I hope that the girl’s mother is ashamed of her actions.
I don’t want to think what the impact will be on Marcus 😥

Sadly I don’t think being sensible and grounded will help him in the type of prison he’s going to.

He’ll be lucky to survive.

So those nasty posters saying he’ll be out in no time and on Love Island either don’t have a clue or don’t have an empathetic bone in their bodies..

And the mom is British too so she well and knew at home it was all perfectly fine. She would have had to go searching for a way to keep them separate.

I agree that’s what probably has people more irate.

If she was Emirati I could maybe understand more or if the age gap was bigger. But the mom is an awful human being.

It's that the mother would wait until home then lodge a complaint. Why? What was she hoping to achieve? Her daughter was almost 18 so to compare it to the UK, it's like my DD being a few months off the age of consent with her boyfriend being exactly that age. Unless it was rape nothing would come of it in the UK.

It’s almost like she’s trying to make the sexual encounter null and void. Look how innocent my poor daughter is, it was the nasty boy who forced himself on her and now he is in prison for it. My daughter is still technically a virgin, honest 🙄

The casual and callous cruelty shown on this thread makes me think very hard about how my black children would be treated if they made a mistake which hurt no one.

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Quite. The competitive "you must follow the law" talk coupled with zero empathy is quite revolting.

What do you mean “act like a westerner”? Have sec with somebody you some age at sixth form who is 2 months below the age of consent.

They have plenty of racist bones in their bodies though.

It is really not a good look to drag Lammy's views on transgender people into a thread where people are concerned about the ruin-or worse- of a very young man's life.

You are right about - some - of those posters.Lets hope you are wrong about the prison.

If the mum did it to protect her daughters innocence she’s completely failed there.

Yes, the Love Island comment was particularly vile.

What the F are you on about?

I don’t know how racism can be considered a good reason.

There is nothing to suggest any coercion - in fact it has been reported that the nature of messages and photos were two young lovers making plans for how they would see each other in the future when they both returned to their homes in London.

Well said!

Three things they don't like in Dubai

1. Sex outside marriage
2. Insulting anyone
3. Alcohol

Do these things at your own peril but don't say you weren't warned.

And yes I feel sorry for the lad. Yes the girls mother is a cow.

Never blame any one in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worse people give you a lesson and at best people give you memories.

So I hope you remember and have memories of "Ignorantia legis non excusat" at worst I gave you a valuble lesson, at best I gave you happiness. 😍

This thread is actually really upsetting. I had no idea people could be so cruel. Is it pure racism? I don’t understand.

Why do people comment without knowing the facts.

Sex outside of marriage is legal for tourists.

That is not why he was imprisoned.

And then those people will also face the law only the uk one which is much softer.

Maybe she should. I doubt we will ever know her true reasons for reporting it let’s face it only be able to speculate.

MN is nicknamed “Prosecco Stormfront” for a reason.

@nogginatemycat or to put it in a more sane way “a teenager was taken on a family holiday and had a fling with another British tourist, just a few weeks younger than him. Sadly the girl’s mother is a controlling evil racist who chose to destroy his life”.

Other’s have asked this question but none of your punitive little buddies have answered it. Why did the mother not report this crime while she and her precious daughter were still in Dubai……? Hmmm, I wonder….. Surely if she has such incredible respect for the law, she should have considered that her daughter might have been guilty of something too. Knowing the misogyny of Dubai, I imagine they’d have found a way to punish her. But it’s OK, she’s back in the UK so she’s safe.

I do worry about some on this thread. Seriously a lot of you shouldn't leave the country, other countries are different to England.
Middle eastern countries in particular are not great for western romance or public drinking or getting into fights with locals or recreational drugs or falling out with your employer or backchatting anyone in authority. Stay home.

I have literally never heard this nickname for MN

I think it is, partly. But also some people revel in being cruel online in a way they wouldn't be in real life.

It’s what? I’ve no idea and I’m complete lost. Like Johnny depp on a mega pint 😅