Tailor may bag jail term for getting ‘too close’ to female client

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A tailor who was jailed for trying to kiss a female customer he was measuring for an abaya is fighting his prison sentence.
Ras Al Khaimah Criminal Court had earlier sentenced the Asian man to six months and ordered he be deported after he was found guilty of assaulting an Arab woman and trying to kiss her on the lips in his shop.
But the man is challenging the ruling. He told the appeal court that he was wrongly convicted and didn’t touch or try to get intimate with the woman.
“I only took her measurements for an abaya,” he said. “I did nothing to her.”
His lawyer asked the court to acquit the man on this basis that there was “insufficient evidence” to prove that the tailor had behaved as charged. Court papers show that the woman lodged a complaint to RAK Police late last year. She claimed that the tailor assaulted her and tried to kiss her when she went to his shop to be measured for an abaya.
Prosecutors confirmed that police detained the tailor, who was interrogated and then referred to court. Investigations suggested he had been inappropriate. The woman earlier told the court the man grabbed her hands and tried to kiss her on the mouth as he was using his tape measure.
She said she pushed the tailor away and ran from his shop. The court hearing was adjourned until June 17.