Absolute result today for Marcus Fakana; the 18-year-old Londoner who was jailed in Dubai for having sex with a 17-year-old girl (also a Londoner) while on holiday in the UAE. He’s just received a royal pardon from Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Fakana, now 19, wrote a letter to the royal last month begging for a humanitarian pardon so he could return home before his sentence was over. He had been sentenced to one year inside Al Awir Prison, and had served six months.
Sex with anyone who is under the age of 18 is illegal in Dubai. While the UAE has relaxed certain laws in recent years to attract tourists and improve its perception abroad, their regulations are still based on Shariah law at the end of the day, so young Marcus definitely made a grave error when deciding to sleep with the girl he met out there, but only got caught because the girl’s mum is a complete scumbag who stitched him up massively.
Marcus was with his parents in the UAE last year when a ‘holiday romance blossomed’ with the girl, who has since turned 18, and was also on holiday with her parents.
The girl’s mum discovered texts on her phone which revealed her secret holiday romance, and then waited until they were both safely back in the UK before contracting authorities in Dubai to tell them that Marcus Fakana had slept with her 17-year-old daughter. As Marcus was still in Dubai at this time, police showed up to his accommodation and arrested him.
At the time, the teen said he ‘couldn’t imagine what’ police wanted to question him for when they showed up at his hotel door, leaving him and his parents ‘terrified’.
Absolutely diabolical move by that girl’s mum, which resulted in Marcus wasting six months of his life in a Dubai prison, not to mention all the stress and anguish it must have caused his family and loved ones. Genuinely, she should be absolutely ashamed of herself.
The worst part about it is that she waited until her and her daughter were back in the UK before grassing Marcus up to the Dubai police, meaning he got punished and her daughter got away with it (provided she never steps foot in Dubai again, which I’m sure she won’t).
Just the absolute worst type of person to want to ruin the boy’s life like this and the lives of his family as well.
The important thing though is that Marcus’s nightmare is over, and he can get back to sh@gging girls stress-free in good old Blighty. Well, you’d think so anyway. Big up Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum!
For the British dad who was recently sentenced to 40 years in Dubai jail after being caught with £2,000 of cocaine, click HERE. Never getting a pardon on that one.
