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An appeals court upheld a one-year sentence issued against a middle-aged woman who assaulted her elderly neighbour after her dog urinated on his family’s car.
The 41-year-old Filipina reportedly unleashed her hound on the 73-year-old Bahraini and whipped the man with the dog’s leash, breaking one of his fingers and tearing the flesh of his earlobe.
She contested her guilt at the Supreme Criminal Appeals Court, but judges upheld the sentence and an order to deport her after completing the jail term.
The High Criminal Court earlier found the expat saleswoman guilty of public slander and unintentionally causing a one per cent disability due to the fractured finger.
Earlier, the retired banker was also convicted of assault and fined BD50 after he bit the woman’s hands in retaliation, then smacked her with a traffic cone and kicked the dog.
He has not lodged an appeal but stated: “I saw the dog peeing on my nephew’s car, so I asked its handler what she was doing, and that this was dirty, and that it’s not right to do such a thing.”
The court heard that the expat was walking her dog in Hoora and had stopped to clean it by a car. During the ensuing standoff, the woman let loose her dog on the angry man, the court heard.
The dog tore his clothes, according to his testimony, and then she whipped his face with the lead and spat on him.
The woman also reportedly cursed and spat at the elderly man, taunting him by stating that ‘you don’t own the road’ and calling him ‘girly’.
The GDN earlier reported the Filipina’s side of the story. Although she admitted to hitting the Bahraini and cursing at him on a public road, she stated that he started the fight.
She claimed that he sparked the argument by calling her a degrading obscenity then went on to bite her hands and strike on her back with a traffic cone.
Her claims are supported by a medical examiner’s report, which noted human bite marks on both of her hands. The man was charged with insulting her and assaulting her, but not causing a serious injury.
At an earlier hearing, the elderly man’s sister appeared before the court to testify about the incident which, she said, left her brother ‘covered in blood’. She claimed that the whipping was so violent, that it removed a piece of flesh from the elderly man’s ear.
“My brother didn’t hit the woman; he just hit the dog,” she told judges during cross-examination.
“I witnessed the incident from the balcony and was quite surprised.”
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