Sex on the beach...Dubai style

[Aryan_]

Dubai 'sex on beach' woman to face court

By Dan Newling
Last updated at 9:32 AM on 12th July 2008

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Michelle Palmer

Michelle Palmer at the brunch where she got drunk. She now faces up to six years in jail

A British woman caught having drunken sex on a beach in Dubai is to be charged with three offences, police said yesterday.

Michelle Palmer faces up to six years in jail if found guilty of having a sexual affair, public indecency and insulting a police officer.

Prosecutors have yet to decide what charges - if any - will be laid against Kent businessman Vince Acors, the man she romped with on the sand of Jumeirah beach after an all-day drinking binge.

Miss Palmer, 36, a publishing manager from Peterborough, will face a Dubai court once she has been formally charged. She has already been sacked from her £28,000-a-year tax-free job with ITP Publishing.

Miss Palmer and Mr Acors, 34, met eight days ago at a weekly champagne brunch at Le Meridien hotel in Dubai, which is something of a tradition among expats.

Extremely drunk a few hours later, Miss Palmer went for a walk along the shore with her companion, a telecoms firm director from Bromley who has a son of seven.

A police officer spotted the couple having sex on the sand and let them off with a caution. But they ignored the warning and were arrested when the officer returned to the scene.

According to police sources, Miss Palmer launched an angry tirade at the policeman after being disturbed for a second time. She is alleged to have hurled abuse and tried to hit him with her high-heeled shoe before being restrained and taken to a cell
Vince Acors

Vince Acors and Michelle Palmer romped on the beach

Sex outside marriage is illegal in the Islamic federation of the United Arab Emirates. Dubai police chief Major General Khamis Mattar al Mazeina said: 'The United Arab Emirates has certain traditions and values and is an Islamic country.

'It does not tolerate such behaviour and everyone must respect our culture as we respect theirs.'

Police are so concerned about the city's drunken daytime parties that they are intending to mount a special 'brunch patrol' to catch misbehaving Britons.

Jumeirah Beach

Jumeirah Beach in Dubai - where Michelle Palmer was caught having sex

Undercover officers will be posted in hotel restaurants on Friday afternoons, a time when most local Muslims are at the mosque but the top hotels host lavish parties - and most of the trouble occurs.

Yesterday the party went on at the hotel where Miss Palmer's troubles began.

Even in Dubai, a city legendary for its excess, brunch at Le Meridien is a byword for alcoholic over-indulgence. Bored British, Australian and American expats gorge themselves on all-you-can-drink champagne from midday.

champagne brunch at Le Meridien Hotel, Dubai

Expat entertainment: Another champagne brunch at Le Meridien Hotel, Dubai

It is not hard to work out the appeal of Le Meridien's brunch offering.

For just over £50, you are served as much Taittinger champagne as you can possibly drink. Or spend an extra £9.50 and you can drink a never-ending glass of Bollinger.

To soak up the alcohol, there is an enormous buffet featuring glistening mounds of lobster, seared beef and kangaroo steaks.

From the start, there is a raucous party atmosphere. The champagne stops at 3.30pm ... just as a four-and-a-half hour long 'happy hour' starts at the bar.

As the early afternoon draws on, and the disco and rock music grows louder, the event inevitably degenerates into an all-out disco.

Yesterday, yards away in the hotel's lobby, a family of traditionally dressed Emiratis quietly sipped tea, no doubt inured by now to the chaos surrounding them.


Dubai 'sex on beach' woman to face court | Mail Online

[bluey]

Yeah, it's the talk of the town.

I really hope she gets what she deserves and an example is made of her so that others do not follow in her path.

On the other hand, things like alcohol shouldn't be served here in the first place.

This is another article: British woman faces jail for sex on Dubai beach - Telegraph

[sumi]

i concur with bluey.

[Timbit]

They were doing it in public during the day? I hope it was an isolated area of the beach.
Still, that's harsh.

I don't see why she's the only one being charged. Takes two to tango.

They should stop serving alcohol if they don't want people doing lewd things.

[Wolfn]

sumiyia said

i concur with bluey.

I concur with you and bluey.

[shadha]

Prosecutors have yet to decide what charges - if any - will be laid against Kent businessman Vince Acors, the man she romped with on the sand of Jumeirah beach after an all-day drinking binge.



The punishment for the woman is clearly outlined but they are still in question about the man? Freakin' idiots.

bluey: I really hope she gets what she deserves and an example is made of her so that others do not follow in her path.

Yeah, because she laid down and had sex on the beach all by her lonesome self.


shadha-

[Glasgow]

This whole episode reeks of hypocrisy.. why is alcohol even sold in Dubai.

[bluey]

The man will be punished too definitely but maybe to a lesser extent [Although I think he should be punished equally], I think the reason why there is being made a difference because the Man was here as a tourist, while she had been here for more than three years and had a UAE visa.

Anyway, in the article I posted, it says:

She faces and her fellow accused face a sentence of between three months and six years in jail in the state, one of seven that makes up the United Arab Emirates.

She told the newspaper: "Because this is known everywhere they're going to make an example of us and we're going to get a higher sentence.

"We are in so much trouble and my family and everybody are affected. Until someone is in this situation they could never know what it's like. It's bad - it's so, so bad.

"They are being pushed into a corner to make an example of us. I'm panicking - my mum is on anti-depressants. I can't say anything else. I've got to go."

The latest is, they're thinking of getting married to avoid the sentence.

[Variable]

Aryan_ said

A police officer spotted the couple having sex on the sand and let them off with a caution. But they ignored the warning and were arrested when the officer returned to the scene.

It's weird they gave them a warning. If that happened here, (in most cases) if a police officer came upon someone publicly drunk having sex on a beach - they would've hauled them off to the drunk tank immidiately.

To soak up the alcohol, there is an enormous buffet featuring glistening mounds of lobster, seared beef and kangaroo steaks.

[dreamdeferred]

Variable said

I was just gonna comment on that.........kangaroo steaks? Seriously?

That's terrifying.

How come the dude isn't being charged? Is it because she allegedly hit the cop with a shoe?

[Wolfn]

Glasgow said

This whole episode reeks of hypocrisy.. why is alcohol even sold in Dubai.

I agree. To my knowledge, Dubai is infamous for having strip clubs right next to masjids.

[Timbit]

Wolfn said

I agree. To my knowledge, Dubai is infamous for having strip clubs right next to masjids.

They gotta cater to everybody, but you don't gotta hate, namean?

[jinnzaman]

Variable said

You know, I never thought about this before . . . but are kangaroos halal?

[dreamdeferred]

Timbit said

They gotta cater to everybody, but you don't gotta hate, namean?

If it's true that Dubai has masjids next to strip clubs........something I doubt, I think it's safe to say we should hate that.

[Timbit]

dreamdeferred said

If it's true that Dubai has masjids next to strip clubs........something I doubt, I think it's safe to say we should hate that.

I guess I missed the memo about Dubai being the resurrected khilafa.














































Okay, I was just kidding, seriously. But there are all kinds of things in the vicinity of masjids.