'Woman Hunter' gets 25 years for sex attacks

• Image Credit: COURTESY Abu Dhabi police
• Brigadier Maktoum Al Sharifi, Director, Capital Police Directorate warned residents from letting their children and domestic workers to wander alone late at night. Members of the public have also been advised to report any suspicious-looking men who enter their building and for building owners to install surveillance cameras and sufficient lighting in stairwells and elevators.

Abu Dhabi: The suspect dubbed the ‘Woman Hunter’ is to face 25 years in prison, the Abu Dhabi Criminal Court ruled on Monday.

Charged with rape and sexual harassment of several women at knife-point in elevators and stairwells of residential buildings, the Arab man has been sentenced to five years for each of the five cases against him. This brings the total number of years to 25 in addition to deportation after completing his time in prison.

The man was caught earlier after threatening Asian housemaids in their 30s who got into the elevator with him at night in residential buildings with a knife if they screamed for help while he sexually harassed and raped them.

Abu Dhabi residents reported feeling relief after learning that the man had been caught and noted that tighter security in buildings may help reduce such crimes