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 😥

I do think somehow we need to have warnings when people book holidays to certain countries. Maybe it’s something that can be automatically issued when you book a flight somewhere.

For those thinking he deserves this - I’m guessing you have no idea what goes on in a maximum security prison in Dubai. Especially for a black boy. I’m so worried for him. I wish our government would step in and do something.

They’re Sikh - so I do honestly believe there’s a race and class angle to the mother’s decision.

Lovely** how would she have lacked capacity? And surely that would need to be proven?

Poor kid I hope,someone sees,sense and Pardons him .

Exactly.

Regardless of whether anyone agrees with their laws or not, he broke the law and is serving a prison sentence.

Don't go to these countries and act like a westerner and expect them to tolerate it.

Anyway, he'll be out and on Love Island or some other ghastly reality Tv show as a result of his infamy.

”Locked up in Dubai” or whatever the name of the group assisting him has said the girl and her family are British-Indians.

It’s on their website.

Someone said that during Ramadan some prisoners are pardoned from Dubai prisons, so let’s all hope this is the case here. In which case he ‘only’ has to survive until February.

Indeed. Mumsnet threads (and the fact the posts are allowed to stand) are a constant reminder of how racist this country is. I hope the girl's name and that of her mother is revealed too. She should have controlled her own daughter, rather than ruin the life of a young man who is no guiltier of a crime than her daughter is.

She is Asian.

There is a famous family with 22 children who did exactly that in the UK and never got punished.

And you must watch too much US TV.

Luckily he seems like a sensible and grounded young lad. Let's hope he gets time off. Or perhaps Sheikh Maktoum will intervene.

Thanks JHound

Reading on from me quoting that I saw it answered and I see others have still questioned a race and class angle.

For me, my anger and I think I speak for a few others on this thread isn't so much the sentence (although is a bit).

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.

She made the complaint knowing full well what would happen to this young man and knowing full well she would be playing a major part j changing his life forever.

All because her daughter had sex with him, and as far as we know, willingly.

I couldn't sleep at night if I was her.

I agree on both points.

I went to Dubai when I was 16, and again at 18 and I don’t think I spent much (if any) time reading about the laws although I knew it was a very strict misogynistic country. A year in prison in this case is totally disproportionate to the so-called crime and anyone who thinks this is justified needs their heads examined.

There absolutely seems to be a racial undercurrent to this and I really hope the government intervenes.

The girl also broke the law in Dubai. Yet her mother didn't report her, and waited until she was back in the UK to report the boy. The girl's mother is a nasty, vindictive, racist bitch.

I mean it’s not massively different - just a different age of consent which is the same everywhere. But it was only the maliciousness of the mother that made this an issue.

Sounds like Marcus’ family then. Surely you would tell your teenage son not to have sex on holiday in Dubai; it’s not unknown that they have dodgy laws around this sort of thing.

No, I know exactly what you mean. Many non-Black POC hold racist views against Black people and idealize White people, including Arabs, and I can say that with knowledge because I am Arab. Would the mother have done this if it was a wealthy White 18 year old boy?

Doubt.

Quite, although there are hopes, albeit faint, that he might contact the people who can grow a cervix in a man and ask if they can grow him a brain.

Although who knows which would be the more difficult task.

”Asian” is a very wide category though. To be very specific they are British-Indian

She would be considered the victim. The same way a child who has been abused isn't a paedo. They consider under 18 a child. In practice it's a shithole with actual indentured slavery going on and many migrants being abused daily, but that's their law. Don't go there on holiday.

Again. She did not break the law. He broke the law by having sex with a minor.
If people don't understand that, then I despair.