DUBAI // The woman who threatened to detonate a bomb belt in a court building is married to the man she was trying to force into a paternity test, a court has heard.
The man calls her in prison every day and admits the boy is his son, her lawyer said.
“During these calls he confesses to being married to her and admits his fatherhood,” said Muna Al Khaja, the woman’s lawyer. “He even sends her money as an allowance.”
Zulfiya Hamraeva, 33, is on trial for threatening to blow up the Dubai Public Prosecution building and spreading terror on September 1.
The Uzbeki woman had demanded a paternity test to prove that Emirati J S A, 49, was the biological father of her 10-year-old son.
The man, a member of the Armed Forces, said the woman had threatened she was going to do something but he did not take her seriously, and that she had asked him for Dh3 million and a villa.
Ms Al Khaja asked the court on Wednesday to obtain a recording of calls between the two to confirm they were married. The court declined, saying it was not related to the charges.
The lawyer, who is taking the case for free, requested that her client’s seized mobile phone be handed to the court.
She said it contained contact details of people who could explain how her client was moved to act. The court agreed to this request.
M Y A, 28, a police captain from Fujairah, was charged with aiding and abetting the Uzbeki woman.
His lawyer, Hamid Al Minhali, requested that his client be questioned again in court, for reasons that were not made clear. The request was approved.
The court earlier heard how J S A said he met the woman in 2003 and 10 days later she claimed she was pregnant to him.
“We both went to Ajman court and I was acquitted. But she was jailed for one month,” he said.
She was also convicted of adultery at that time.
In 2007, the woman filed a law suit against him in Sharjah to prove he was the father of her son but the court refused to hear the case on the basis of the Ajman ruling.
He said he was astonished when she went to the building wearing the belt and threatened to blow it up. The belt later turned out to be a fake.
The next hearing was set for January 12.
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