Dubai, June 19: After spending nearly 42 days in Al Aweer Central Jail, British housewife Sally Antia, who was convicted of adultery, has been deported.
A source close to her husband told Khaleej Times Antia left the UAE a couple of days ago and will not be allowed to visit the country again.
“However, she chose to fly to Brisbane in Australia, where she would spend time with her sister,” the source said.
The same source confirmed British media reports indicating that her husband accompanied her. “However, I don’t think that the trip is meant to fix the relation.
“Obviously, the husband regrets reporting about his wife’s wrong-doing, but he does not have any intention to save the marriage.
“The reports that he had filed a waiver and that he hugged his wife on her way out of the jail are not true.” The source added that the husband wanted to keep an amicable relation with his children’s mother.
Antia, 44, and mother of two daughters aged 13 and 11, was sentenced to two months in prison, along with her boyfriend Mark Hawkins, as they were found guilty of having sex out of wedlock. The Court of Misdemeanours also ordered the deportation of the duo. Hawkins, however, is yet to be deported.
Antia admitted in the court on May 19 that she had an extra-marital sexual relation with her compatriot boyfriend.
The mother of two pleaded guilty when Presiding Judge Rabih Labna confronted her with the adultery charge.
Hawkins, visitor, 44, pleaded, however, not guilty to the charge of having sex out of wedlock.
The unmarried couple were caught by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officers after 2.30 am on May 2 this year emerging from a five-star hotel.
The boyfreind’s defence counsel, Ayman Mirdas, had pleaded for leniency.
“I just plead the court for clemency. As per the law, to admit one’s guilt is the master of evidence. My client knows the woman for four years and her husband knew of that friendship relation that binds them.”
Court records showed that when asked about what she was doing there, the British woman admitted to having spent the night in a room at the hotel and having sex with her compatriot boyfriend.
Mirdas had told the court that the husband gave his approval for his wife to go out with her boyfriend.
“My client is just on a visit to Dubai. He is the provider of four children back in the United Kingdom. I request the court for a quick verdict.”
The British housewife had also stated that she knew her boyfriend for four years and he had been in Dubai for six days before being detained.
She stated that she had sex with him several times since his arrival in the city.
She also reportedly told the interrogators that she invited him to come to Dubai and paid for his ticket fare.
In the meantime, the woman’s husband, a pilot living in the UAE for almost 13 years, is engaged in a battle for custody of his children and he has already filed for divorce.
–Agencies