Couple Sentenced To 2 Months In Jail For Having Sex In The Back Of Dubai Taxi

A British businesswoman and an Irish welder convicted of having drunken sex in the back of a taxi in Dubai have been sentenced to two months in jail after losing an appeal. 

Rebecca Blake, 30, and Conor McRedmond, 28, had spent a year fighting the allegations.

Witnesses said recruitment executive Rebecca stripped off before straddling McRedmond, who had his jeans pulled down. The pair denied the accusations and yesterday said they were ‘disappointed’ by the outcome, which will see both deported after serving their sentences.

Rebecca, who was sacked from her £120,000-a-year post, said: ‘I am devastated by this result and gutted this has been dragging on for a year. I cannot wait to get home and start my life now but I am very scared about going to prison.’

Blake was sacked from her £100,000-a-year job as a recruitment consultant for Manpower in Dubai following the scandal

McRedmond has been living in Dubai for four years, said: ‘I am disappointed after coming this far and fighting these allegations for so long. I feel they are making an example of us.’

Rebecca and McRedmond do not have to go to jail immediately and can decide when to hand themselves in – but if they are arrested in the meantime or get into trouble with the law, they will be taken straight to prison.

They cannot leave the country until they have served their sentence. 

Rebecca and McRedmond were arrested on May 4 last year after going on a ten-hour drinking binge. The pair met hours earlier at a brunch, where they admitted getting drunk on free-flowing wine and vodka in an all-inclusive €45-a-head deal.

They carried on drinking at a hotel and got into a taxi together at about 10pm.

 

Taxi driver Qaiser Khan, 30, claimed within minutes of getting in, Rebecca had taken her top off and was writhing on top of McRedmond while ‘making the sounds of a woman having sex’.

 

He pulled over on Sheikh Zayed road and summoned policeman Abdullah Obaid Khamis, who told the court that he found the pair having sex and interrupted them by tapping on the window. He told prosecutors: ‘They kept having sex for four minutes. The man’s shirt was open, his trousers were down to his knees and the woman was not wearing any underwear.’

The taxi driver alleged Rebecca offered him ‘a lot of money’ to tell prosecutors they had been kissing rather than having sex, but he refused.

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