After allegedly making a rude gesture to another driver, a London surgeon detained in Dubai has had his court hearing postponed to August 3.
After Dr Joseph Nunoo-Mensah was unable to attend a scheduled court hearing this week, a judge has pushed back the trial to August 3, his lawyer told Arabian Business.
In April, Dr Nunoo-Mensah had his passport seized after he was accused of gesturing at a fellow driver after an altercation n Dubai. The doctor, a consultant colorectal surgeon at King's College Hospital in London, was allowed to return to the UK after a friend gave their passport as surety,
On June 20, he was due in Dubai to face a charge of public indecency.
Lawyer Abdulla Al Mudharreb told Arabian Business last month that he was confident Nunoo-Mensah would be acquitted.
“It happened at 7:30pm at a dark time, there are no witnesses and he was in the car with the windows up. I think he is in a good situation and as a lawyer it is a very simple case,” said Al Mudharreb, a lawyer with Al Mudharreb Advocates & Legal Consultants.
“I went to the public prosecutor two or three times and I spoke with him on legal points that there is not enough evidence or witnesses. It is man against man.”
Nunoo-Mensah, a British national, claimed he was returning to Dubai when he was tailgated by a car flashing its lights. He said that the stretch of road had a 60kph speed limit as roadworks were ongoing, and was single-lane which prevented him moving out of the other driver’s way.