DUBAI // A saleswoman had to run and hide in a woman’s car from her employer’s driver after he sexually assaulted her, a court heard on Thursday.
The Filipina said that, on several occasions, Pakistani driver QK had told her that he loved her and wanted her.
On the evening of November 15 last year, the driver was to take eight of the company’s employees, including the victim, from Dubai Outlet Mall to their homes.
“He dropped everyone else and I remained alone in the bus,” the Filipina said. “He changed directions and when I asked him where he was going, he said he was taking me to his house.
“‘I want you,’ he said to me. I refused and asked him to take me back home but he did not and instead parked the van in some building’s car park in Al Hamriya and grabbed me from my neck.
“He tried kissing me and pulled my shirt up and started touching me and asking me to accompany him to his place.”
The women added that she resisted, pushing QK away before managing to unlock the van and run outside. She spotted a woman entering her car and hid inside the woman’s vehicle.
“It was about 8pm and I was getting into my car when a woman came running and hid inside my car,” said the female witness, Filipina RK. “She told me the driver had molested her but she was very scared and I didn’t understand much from her.”
The next morning the victim called police.
At Dubai Criminal Court on Thursday morning, the defendant denied the sexual assault charge.
A verdict is expected on February 13.
salamir@thenational.ae
