UAE cabbie cleared of kidnap and rape try on Pinay

A United Arab Emirates (UAE) court has cleared a taxi driver of charges he abducted and tried to rape a Filipina waitress earlier this year, a UAE news site reported Thursday.

The Court of First Instance acquitted the taxi driver of kidnapping, attempted rape, and making criminal threats, Khaleej Times reported.

Court records showed the incident occurred last April 2, where the Pakistani driver, 34, was accused of driving the Filipina, 24, to a sandy area in Nad Al Sheba. He allegedly threatened her that he would assault and kill her if she did not strip.

The Filipina recounted that on the day of the incident, the driver had picked her up in Al Rafaa area and was asked to take her home.

"(H)e took another direction and did not start the meter. I asked him why he took that way and he told me to keep quiet," the Filipina said in the prosecution investigation.

When the Filipina said she kept talking, the driver allegedly shouted at her and kept her from using her mobile phone, then took out an iron rod.

But when she asked him to stop at a gas station so she could get off the cab, the driver kept driving until he reached a sandy area and told her to remove her clothes.

When she refused, she said the driver "threatened he would kill me if I did not do as he wanted."

"I asked him again for water and I got off the car the moment he got distracted looking for a water bottle for me,” she said, adding the Pakistani then drove away. —Joel Locsin/KBK, GMA News

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