Abu Dhabi serial rapist sentence increased to 25 years

A man dubbed the ‘woman hunter’ who attacked five women in lifts in Abu Dhabi had his jail term increased to 25 years yesterday.

Abu Dhabi Criminal Court last month sentenced the 30-year-old Egyptian to ten years in prison after he was found guilty of one of the assaults.

But after the court heard of the four other attacks, the judges decided to sentence the man to the equivalent of five years in jail for each assault after convicting him of each charge.

The court heard that he would wait for women to get in a lift in residential buildings in the capital and then force them out into stairways, threatening them with a knife.

He would then either rape or attempt to rape them. His victims were all Asian women and aged between 26 and 30.
The court was yesterday told about one of the attacks carried out on a Filipina.

“She said the man beat her up and tried to strangle her before he raped her,” said a prosecutor.

Officers said a forensic test confirmed that blood traces and semen found on the woman’s body matched that of the defendant.

During previous hearings, a male witness told the court that he and his four flatmates woke up to “screams and the sound of knocking” about 4am one morning.

He said they went to investigate with the building supervisor and a security guard and found a woman lying on the floor of a bathroom with a cut on her forehead and her underwear torn. The defendant, pictured here in a police cartoon, had denied all charges.


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