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Marnie Pearce


dolly
Sorry if it offended you I just copied and pasted it over from an article in a paper I don’t normally read. Would you prefer I quote the Telegraph next time?
Even if this woman had an affair does it really warrant a 3 month jail sentence and a 20,000 dhs fine?
dolly Languishing in a squalid prison cell, Marnie Pearce spends her days replaying the moment her two precious children were taken from her and she was thrown in jail. Falsely accused of adultery by her husband, she was found guilty on suspect evidence and imprisoned by a court in Dubai – without being allowed to say anything in her defence. Yet today The Sunday Mirror can reveal that it was her hypocrite husband Ihab El Labban who was cheating on HER. We have discovered he had an 18-month fling with an American mother of two. Yet under draconian Sharia Law, it is Marnie who now cowers behind bars, weeping for sons Ziad, seven and Laith, four, who she fears she won’t see again until they are adults. How can this man get away with this? dubaidog I agree, total BS. I have named and shamed in my blog. Hope the jerk rots. Seems links to the story are disappearing here in the UAE. His pic and some video are found here: This is not shameless self-promotion, I have no ads or revenue stream ( FYI mods). Just trying to get the word out. I love how the beach-humpers made a mint and their story was everywhere, but this poor lady is losing all that matters to her. You wold think the Brit. Embassy would butt in and make a scene, but no. Misery Called Life This is heart breaking! Why are western women so gullible? Maybe these western women should learn from their Indian and Arab(locals) counterparts, a thing ot two, wen it comes to inter cultural relationships..... I dnt even wanna get started with that Egyptian fraud! Brit embassy? Even the filipino embassy is way more effective wen it comes to protecting and standing up for their people! Anywaz wat do u expect the embassy to do wen Britain's immigration policy/foreign policy itself is so screwed! dolly Why is this case not going by Sharia law, in the Koran in clearly states that there has to have been witnesses to the actual act. This could happen to any woman here if the husband wants to get nasty, its very worrying Pankaj
I guess it's not really sharia law then. It is i-am-the-judge-and-the-verdict-depends-on-my-mood law. rudeboy we dont know the full story. so how can we comment? rudeboy cool. first thing first. if she didnt do anything wrong why doesnt the embassy step in? british embassy has lots of power in uae especially when it comes to looking after their ppl. i mean which embassy doesnt :S. i could be wrong but then again who knows she probably was involved in adultery. if i was a theif and i robbed a bank. tommorow i get caught ofcourse i m gonna say i didnt do it :D lol who bloody admits to a crime? they dont they get caught. Misery Called Life
Google It! Misery Called Life errr, ur forgetin bout the American women........the mistress?

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:S first the british woman and now american woman :S do i have to google that as well :D????? bezor A couple of month ago my former college committed suicide. He was divorced since three years and had shared custody of the children. But his former wife always used the kids to make his life miserable. Every time I told him to fight her, he would say: no, its goanna hurt the kids. He kept quite until he couldn’t take it anymore. Not even his family knew how bad it was. The thing is, you never know about people’s private situation. I guess that’s why it’s called private. That’s why people get shocked when happy couples suddenly get divorced. I feel very sorry for this mother to be in this situation, not seeing her kids. It’s seems very cold hearted to do that to any parent. But again, I don’t know anything about their private life. rudeboy
got to agree with bezor. we dont know the full story so why comment? i see there are many online petitions for her. good luck. but honestly speaking if she was in the wrong the british gov and embassy would have certainly stepped in and saved her neck. dubaidog Sorry, but the video is pretty compelling. Regardless of whether or not ANYONE shagged ANYONE, a family should not be torn apart. The kids will be hooped for life, as will mum. Bad news any way you slice it. desertdudeshj
I think you need to rephrase this sentence, do you have any idea what sharia law is other than what The Sunday Mirror tells you ?
I'm sure you do believe that sharia law is draconian since you don't know single thing about it but that statement is an outright insult to all muslims.
As for the OT as again we all know how "factual" the media can be. Ofcourse all british citizens in jail all across the world are actually innocent and its a global conspiracy led by the Arabs to jail as many as possible.
Oh for christ's sake. Yes its teriible that the family has been split up but she should have tought about it before she started shagging around. Same goes for the dude aswell ( If that is the case ) Chocoholic First off the British Embassy will not involve itself in personal cases, in fact they rarely get involved in anything at all. Secondly this guy is absolute scum! How can anyone do that to their children? He's not looking out for himself, he's being a selfish bastard and sadly under UAE law, fathers until the children reach a certain age are granted sole custody, so this poor woman is unlikely to see her children for a very long time. If I saw this guy on the street I'd bloody well take a swing at him! rudeboy
sorry but the british government and embassy can step in and solve this problem sharia law or no sharia law.
&no=329583&rel_no=1 a guy in Pakistan saved by the british government for a crime he didnt do.
sorry but if this woman didnt do anything wrong why isnt the british embassy and govt stepping in? i guess she did do something wrong.
in various newspapers when she was caught she claimed she was having tea with her colleague in another newspaper she claims she had her colleague around to fix her pc :D lol
one lie leads to another lie :D Chocoholic Of course they CAN step in and do something, but the majority of times they won't. rudeboy
yeh they can step in if they knew she didnt do anything wrong. but in this case they wont step in because they already know that she did commit the crime. i could be wrong but its been what 4 months now and they are not stepping in. mi5 and the british government gets the whole intelligence about this woman. they have probably seen the evidence and they cant help her cos she has committed the crime.
Chocoholic RB, you don't know what you're talking about! A friend of mine was arrested for something he didn't do, did the whole court and spent some time in the slammer thing. The Embassy flat out said that they do not get involved. Chocoholic And in any case, even if she did do something, the way her husband has handled it and they way the children have been exposed to all of it is disgusting! kanelli Interesting to see your take on things rudeboy. Do you think it is possible to offer someone a cup of tea when they have been there to fix your computer? Since when does having another man in your house mean that you are an adulteress? Were they caught in bed/naked together/having s.e.x? bonk
I thought I read that even the police said they were having tea and Mr Fixit really was fixing the computer. And results of a DNA test indicated no exchange of body fluids but I can't find the article now. Best I can do it this ...


bonk Error - double post Chocoholic This whole thing smacks of being a set-up! rudeboy
lol you and your dodgy friends are everywhere. Misery Called Life There r so many people like Miss Pearce, who's stories never come to the fore! At least with the British, one thing is certain, their stories will always be published! Thank goodness for Brit publications. Rudeboy are u implyin that Miss Pearce should be sentenced and should never see her kids again? Becuz she had an alleged affair....Wat in ur opinion should be done about the Husband den, and Ms Pierce's alleged lover who is roaming scott free(not that he's guilty of anytin), and how r the kids responsible for all of this? Since they r the one's who will suffer the most.. I'm sure the police in Dubai must feel lame investigating such cases, when there are far more critical cases, that could use their attention... Chocoholic Cases like this are a complete and utter waste of time and money. And the suffering these poors children must be going through is horrific! So people make mistakes, who is innocent 100% of the time. But the things the husband has done, even asking for compensation is ridiculous. He is an evil, evil man, selfish to the core and only thinking of himself! rudeboy
misery all i am saying is ok if she is being put in prison for the wrong reasons why isnt the british govt butting in?
fyi dubai police has top of the range instruments which do assist them in solving crimes. are you telling me they didnt investigate this? no forensic investigation was carried out on this case? sorry but something doesnt add up here.
whats happening to the kids is sad. but are u telling me this shit only happens in dubai? plz.
one of the guys in pakistan was saved from death row sentence by the british gov, prince charles and prime minister for one of the crimes he didnt do.
are you telling me that the british gov, prince charles and the prime mminister dont know about this case? i can tell you her own MP from her town is going to present this forward to the house of lords. Misery Called Life The ministers in the Brit gov r too bus squabbling among themselves and attending futile G20 meetings, which will never resolve the financial crisis! Prince Charles is busy at tea with Camilla and her majesty. While his sons spend all their time making out, attending charity dinners and craving to kick sum a$$ in Iraq n Afghanistan! Her own town MP is probably busy tryin to ensure citizenship for that Egyptian fraud, lest the MP be accused of racism. The officials at the Brit embassy who were too busy placing their bets on the dubai world cup....now r busy counting their profits! No one refutes the sophistication of the Dubai police...but the question as always is will they be True and Just? The sceptism arrises from the horrid tales of DF posters like, Herve, Sharfaz, Chocoholic says that she knew sum1 victimized n many more! CVB right then, just to put one part of this thread to bed and hopefully shut up the judgmental rudeboy on this, The British Embassy and Govt will not step in and interfere with any judicial proceedings taken against a British citizen abroad, unless their life is in danger, ie the Pakistan story that was quoted above. The British embassy will monitor the health and situation of a British national imprisoned overseas and will do what they can to provide support and lines of communication for the imprisoned national, but if the British Embassy was to fight the corner in a legal aspect for every Brit who got themselves into trouble then it would cost a fortune. Do you think the UK has a team of lawyers with big budgets stationed around the world ready to leap to the defence of every person accused of breaking the laws in a country? Now we all know that the prison conditions and legal system in the UAE are pretty third world, but there is no threat to the life of Marnie Pearce which is why the adulterous scum that she married has been able to get away with what he has. Hopefully a higher power has something particularly nasty in store this leach and he suffers a long and painful demise. that is all. Snow The poor kids deserve a better father. Maybe the storm might flood the jails, and she will escape by swimming her way through the drainage pipes and nobody will catch her. Prison Break 4. gtmash
The sewage will kill her. Snow
Why, do you know her personally? gtmash
No, I don't know her, but I know the drains here are filled with raw illegally-dumped sewage. rudeboy
lol pakistan is worse then uae. that guy got saved by the british gov. dont tell me they all busy enjoying a jolly good old day.
cant believe i am arguing about her when there are better things to argue about. like innocent ppl being killed in palestine :D
shes going to prison and nothing we can do about it. feel sorry for her but honestly can we do anything for her?
moral of the story. in dubai dont be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
if you are GOOD luck to you. bonk
If I've understood the legal system correctly in Dubai, it's not the police that pass judgement and issue sentence, it's the judge. And it's the prosecutor that decides whether or not to bring a case to court. I thought the police did not find evidence of adultery, but the prosecutor went ahead anyway, based on the word of the maid? Del
Well said. They just can't be bothered.
Even my Interpol friend told me to visit the BE for my problem - and he should know.
They gave me photocopies of a list of websites - I told them I know how to use the Internet and walked out. katja I do not know whether BE will interfere in a bitter and ugly divorce case. Because this case is only this and nothing else. First of all, it wasn't a big secret that she had an affair. Friends did warn her about the consequenses of bringing a man in her husbands house while still married! She choose to ignore this! Apparently the children were not important enough to consider the risks she was taking. Second the video footage which was shown to the world was premeditated. It was her wish to be filmed and shown to the world. What mother would use her childrens emotions to get support from the world?The hand over could have been done in a civilized way. So if we are talking about protecting the children in this ugly case between the parents, I must say she is not doing a very good job here! The news about his affair is old news as well in the Community (Marnie made sure of this), when confronted he never denied it and left his home. Only after finding evidence that she was about to take the boys out of the country with her "cup of tea" boyfriend, he filed a case against her. This case has been conducted under civil law, not under Shariah Law (she would have gotten 6 years) This case is not what it seems, unfortunately she has choosen to get her so called story out to the tabloids. She is very succesfull getting attention this way, but i.m.o it will only hurt her and their children more in the end. kanelli
Sorry, but your story sounds really biased.
First of all, according to Marnie Pearce's writings the marriage broke down because of her husband's infidelity. What kind of man finds himself morally superior to cheat and then have his wife arrested for allegedly doing the same thing? Why haven't the police arrested him for infidelity if they are worried about the moral decay such behaviour causes in this Islamic society? Where is your criticism of the husband for having an affair on his wife while they were still married and living under the same roof? No comments from you about how much he loves his children after cheating on their mother and leaving the family home? You have a bias indeed... (You aren't his girlfriend by chance are you?)
Related to this issue - How does it make a person a bad or uncaring parent if they do sleep with someone else? It makes them a bad spouse perhaps, but it doesn't say anything about their parenting or how much they love their children. If you stay in a bad marriage and show your children a dysfunctional relationship, isn't that worse than the parents living separately? I personally don't feel a court should have the right to take kids away because of infidelity. If they do insist on doing it, then the kids should also be taken from their father. Now that sounds like a great idea doesn't it? :roll:
Secondly, all the husband had to do is tell authorities to put a ban on her travel and the children's travel at the UAE airports and borders, so that takes care of her trying to leave with the children. He did not have to have her arrested for infidelity.
Thirdly, even though I haven't seen the video of her handing her kids over, how is it that you can be judgmental about how she did it? Should she be unemotional or have sent her kids with someone else to be handed over to the husband? How would you behave if you had to hand your children over and may never see them again? Guess you must be a stronger person than Marnie, eh? Also, if arrested in a country with a 3rd world handling of human rights issues, it is pretty damn smart to have video footage and lots of support to try to help your situation. If you don't fight hard you will get swallowed by the corrupt/unjust system.
Divorce is ugly, one parent having the other arrested and deported is ugly. As far as I can see the kids are getting screwed by this whole situation, and I don't see how it is fair to blame only Marnie. Chocoholic Sorry Katia, but your post smacks of hypocrisy! So it's okay for him to have cheated?! Why wasn't he arrested and imprisoned for that? So it's alright for men, but not for women? Give me a break! The guy is scum for what he has done - end of! RobbyG
Umphhhff.... less great Kitty than before...
Just got kicked in the nuts here. Ohhhhhh aiyayayaii Bora Bora He should be castrated so that he doesn't bring any more children into the world that he can damage. He is pure evil. katja Call me biased, no problems with that :D I have an opinion based on the fact that I know both the stories, since I personally know the parties involved! I find it remarkable that so many have an opinion based on tabloids and the video footage only! :shock: I don't give a hoot about both their affairs. I do care though how they have involved their children in their personal battle. And my opinion is that the mother is using her childrens emotions for her own attention. She had a choice to get custody of her children and not end up in prison. Chocoholic your remark was one of these options. After his confession that he had cheated on her, she could have filed for a divorce in a civil divorce case. Evidence was his mistress letter and a witness who was present while he confessed. The divorce would have been granted with her custody of the children, shared or visit times for him! This would have been in the best interest of their children. She made a different choice. Although friends warned her about having an affair in the marital house, in Dubai....of all places, how stupid can you be, she wasn't discreet. Gave her husband (they were still married) all the ammunition on a plate, and on top of it she left hard copy evidence that she was planning to take the boys out of the country! The result we know. She is in prison, lost custody of her boys and will be deported! And she is using her children to get attention, donations and sympathy, while she had the option to give them at least a more stable life. This is my opinion, and the opinion of others who know both sides of the story! And we are all very sad about the boys :( ps. BE was involved in the beginning but backed out for unknown reasons! kanelli Who cares if you know both parties katja, your comments are still hypocritical. You only criticize Marnie for having an affair in her house, but no criticism for the husband who had an affair and left his family. Maybe he shagged his mistress in the house too for all anyone knows - who cares where the shagging took place! Why are you criticizing the wife for not taking the husband to court right away for divorce. It doesn't make sense that you think she deserves what she got because she didn't take her husband to court for divorce when you think she should have. I'm wondering why you didn't suggest she have her husband arrested for infidelity right away after she found out and had the proof. You don't seem to mind that he had her arrested... Do you really have the kids best interests in mind, or only the husband's? The point still stands that the husband could have talked to border authorities to stop her from leaving the country with the children. Again, he did not have to have her arrested for infidelity. RobbyG Catfight, bring it on :happy1: oh yeah ;) Snow ^^^Lesbo^^^ Chocoholic Katia, clearly you don't know the legal workings of this country then. Until a certain age the father is automatically granted custody, NOT the mother! This has happened time and time again, so is it any wonder that women who find themselves in this situation, try to flee with their children? It's either that or not to see them again for many years, of which time they basically have their minds poisoned against the mother, by the father. I can fully understand Marnie's point of view in wanting to get out in this case. The guy is still unreasonable, uncaring and an idiot! Bora Bora OK, jumping in here. Katia, unless you know first hand what happened between husband and wife, I guess it is safe to assume that your "knowledge" was gained through gossip and rumor. No one here - no one commenting - has first hand knowledge of what happened. If I am wrong, the person who does know please correct me. My understanding - as your info is based on "understanding" - is that the mother wanted to work things out with the husband to share custody of the children. If she was making arrangements to leave Dubai with the children isn't it possible it was because she learned that the husband was trying to get full custody of the children? The way this man (and I use that term loosely) took custody of the children and insured that the mother would not have contact with them by having her arrested and deported is the most dispicable act I have ever heard of. The only circumstances I could see justifying that kind of action would be if it was PROVEN that she was abusing them, for which there was none. His action had to be based on hate because obviously the children didn't factor in to what he planned to do and how it would affect them. And when I speak of PROOF, he had absolutely NO PROOF that she was having an affair. I would guess that once the satisfaction he got from hurting her so badly passes, the children will probably be sent to Egypt to be raised by his family, leaving them with no mother and a father living elsewhere. In the meantime, they will be raised by a housemaid. These children don't mean anything to him other than being a tool to hurt her. It seems that she loved her children too much and he didn't love them enough. To him, she was his main target, the children were merely collateral damage. And what a picture that was put into their little heads when father drove off leaving mother in the street crying and devastated. Well, I can only hope that when these boys become of age they look for their mother and at least hear her side of the story unless, of course, the father didn't poison their minds so badly that they grow up thinking the worst of her. Any decent father would never want to poison the mind of a child about the other parent. And if you think that she went too far in publicizing her case, she had every right, since she apparently had no rights as a woman and a mother in this matter. Forget who did what, the children were the innocent victims here. kanelli Great post Bora Bora. RobbyG
Thats because its a great Kitty. :wink: Bora Bora
Always great kitty. Never kicks, just scratches. RobbyG
I don't feel any difference hon. 8) Bora Bora
That's because you got use to it!! :love4: RobbyG So true :love10: sigh...how love can make a person blind... ;) rudeboy
got to agree there.
fine she didnt have a affair.
would any mother let herself and her children be filmed?
how many of you are mothers here? would you have your children be filmed?
sorry but the films on youtube are just dodgy. if u didnt have an affair fine enough. but why the filming? what you want to show the world? that i was innocent and look my children are being taken away. that film had a good effect on some ppl here. it just shows how powerful the media can be when in the wrong hands ;) rudeboy i really dont care about the woman. and i really dont care about the guy either. she could be a @#$%^ for bringing a friend into her house knowing that she could get into huge trouble. trouble she found my sire :D he could be a @(@#(@# as well for having an affair like chocoholics and kanelli mention. but do we know any truth in that? unless he happens to be chocholics friend then yeh we can all believe chocholics :D divorce is a messy business and honestly speaking both the parents NEED to grow up and get a room :D. they dont care about the children. i guess they are after something else. hmmm probably money and property. i dont know. but what i dont understand is that her pics and videos are EVERYwhere on youtube. videos of her children too. ppl die for privacy. ask your brad pits and jolinas. they would die to have the cameras off them from one day. where ever they go cameras follow them. and i guess they are tired and sick of it. who wouldnt be? dianna was and look at her. but this woman is dying for some attention and sympathy. fine woman u got my sympathy. you are being judged for something u didnt do. fine fine. but why bring your children onto youtube? kanelli Good, so we can stop reading your opinion after the first sentence where you say you don't care about either of the people. (The rest was rubbish anyway.) rudeboy
(the rest was true. you dont like the true thats why it is rubbish for you).
lol and how do you know it was rubbish. didnt you say we can stop reading your opinion after the first sentence :D lol Chocoholic erm ever heard of using things as evidence? To prove how malicious and cruel your 'husband' can be? I don't blame her for having someone film it. Bora Bora Rudeboy, you just don't get it. Hopefully you learn a few more lessons out of life before you procreate. RobbyG
So true. +1 for Kanelli.
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