Tierra Allen, a British influencer, was arrested and imprisoned in Dubai after refusing to pay a $30,000 ransom from a car rental firm employee following a minor car accident. This incident highlights the shocking prevalence of legal nightmares for British tourists in Dubai, where thousands are estimated to be arrested annually.
IT was the most popular destination for Brits seeking winter sun last year, but what happens if you find yourself locked up for a ‘crime’ like kissing or drinking wine on the flight over?Tierra Allen thought Dubai was a paradise of beautiful beaches, top restaurants, cool bars and clubs – until she found herself facing up to five years in jail.
Incredible as it seems in a country known for extravagance and excess, and visited by half a million Brits a year, this type of legal nightmare is shockingly common. Placed under a travel ban, she was only allowed to return home in July, after intervention from the Irish Government and British campaign group Detained In Dubai.police
“It was so stressful. I felt powerless, I couldn’t bear it. Once my case started getting attention, I was even more anxious, in case I was made an example of. She was travelling with her four-year-old daughter and was arrested in July 2018, after having one glass of wine on the eight-hour flight from the UK.She was detained with her daughter in a cell for three days and initially denied food, water and access to a toilet, before being released.Former Love Island contestant Kaz Crossley
The couple were not told details of the charges for months and only learned Matthew, then 30, was accused of being a British spy weeks before a sham hearing, at which he was sentenced to life in prison. She was eventually allowed a visit in September. “He was very pale. He was very startled. His demeanour was not of the man I had married,” she says.
She learned he had been charged with espionage from news reports, and that he had been coerced into making a video confession.Daniela was then advised to leave the country immediately for her own safety.“I knew that he was innocent, and I knew that they were just trying to save face by convicting him. We will never know why they picked on Matthew.
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