WhatsApp message ends UAE couple’s 10-year marriage

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DUBAI // A text message from a strange man ended a couple’s ten-year marriage, a court heard today.
The pair were alone in their hotel room when the husband saw the message and accused his wife of cheating on him.
Prosecutors told the Misdemeanours Court the Emirati couple, who have two children together, were enjoying a “quiet night away from home” at the Grand Hyatt on March 8 when the wife’s phone rang, indicating the receipt of a message on her WhatsApp application.
The husband looked at the screen and became enraged when he noticed it was from a man named Khalid who he did not know.
Snatching the phone from her grasp he checked her contacts book and found another man he did not know – referred to in her contact book as “The Captain”.
“I told her to go to her family’s house and never return to mine. I said I would send her the divorce papers there,” recalled the husband who stormed off leaving his wife at the hotel room.
Ten days later the husband SA, 38, was called by police and informed his wife had lodged a complaint against him, claiming he had assaulted her and insulted her honour.
“When we arrived at the hotel room, he grabbed me by my hair, beat me up with his hands and threw my mobile at my head before banging my head to the wall,” claimed the wife MA, 40, who added that her husband often accused her of cheating on him.
She said that on some occasions he would ask his friends to call her and flirt to see if she would flirt back.
“I would always hang up the phone and never give any man a chance,” said the woman, adding that her husband had often beaten her in the past.
The wife gave prosecutors a medical report that showed she suffered bruises and scratches to her left cheek.
“That’s just an attempt by her to cover her bad behaviour,” the husband told the court.
He denied a charge of assault and the case was adjourned to May 21.

source: http://www.thenational.ae

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