An electrician working in the UAE has been sentenced to three months for sending death threats via Facebook to a woman that spurned his marriage proposal, daily newspaper The National reported on Monday.
The 33-year-old Sri Lankan expat posted a message on the social forum asking people for suggestions on how he could kill the woman, 24, after she refused his offer of marriage in March, the report added.
His message read: "I need kill [EK] plz tell me how I will kill her."
The man claims the pair were in love, but said he posted the threat when she refused to repay AED 1,000 ($272) he had lent her.
The woman told the criminal court the pair had met while working in Abu Dhabi, adding, he proposed shortly after.
"He kept on annoying me but then I got transferred to Dubai," she said.
She added the man continued to call her until she changed her mobile phone number.
The man admitted posting the message on Facebook, but was acquitted of an additional charge of sending a personal message carrying the same threat, the report added.
The man will be deported after serving his jail term
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The 33-year-old Sri Lankan expat posted a message on the social forum asking people for suggestions on how he could kill the woman, 24, after she refused his offer of marriage in March, the report added.
His message read: "I need kill [EK] plz tell me how I will kill her."
The man claims the pair were in love, but said he posted the threat when she refused to repay AED 1,000 ($272) he had lent her.
The woman told the criminal court the pair had met while working in Abu Dhabi, adding, he proposed shortly after.
"He kept on annoying me but then I got transferred to Dubai," she said.
She added the man continued to call her until she changed her mobile phone number.
The man admitted posting the message on Facebook, but was acquitted of an additional charge of sending a personal message carrying the same threat, the report added.
The man will be deported after serving his jail term
muwa maranna oi thibbe
