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London teen jailed for one year in Dubai after 'holiday romance' with 17-year-old girl (www.mylondon.news)

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Marcus, from Tottenham, North London, had been enjoying a holiday with his parents when he met a fellow Brit at the same hotel. A holiday fling sparked and the pair spent time together until the girl, also from London, flew back to Britain.

In Dubai, if an adult has a sexual relationship with a person under 18, they can be prosecuted for having a sexual relationship with a minor. The relationship would be legal in the UK.

Marcus and his parents were set to fly back shortly after - but their plans were thrown into chaos when police knocked on their hotel room door. The "terrified" teenager was then reportedly hauled in for questioning without any explanation and held at the Al Barsha Police Station, DID said. He spent three days there, during which time he was not allowed to make a phone call or speak with his parents, it is claimed.

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 82 points 6 days ago (16 children)

Hard to feel sorry about anyone travelling to Dubai.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

Correct for adults, but this was the kid travelling with his parents. It's likely that the decision was the parents' - also, most kids are not very well-versed in politics.

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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

I have the family's next vacation picked out! Saudi Arabia, where they'll have a fully stocked bar of alcohol and pork waiting for them to enjoy! What could go wrong!

Stop spending your money in these Islamofascist countries!

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I wonder if there is a law in the UK that would allow the parents of the boy to sue the mother of the girl for snitching. Like, she weaponized the laws of another country that criminalize behaviours that are legal in the UK, for things that happened between UK citizens abroad. That sounds like something UK legislators might have the power and incentive to legislate, right?

Also, I would not fault the girl if she hated her horrible mother for the rest of her life.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

£20 says she's white and racist.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You know, laws and code have a lot in common. In both, if you change something at the wrong place, another totally unrelated part will behave different or stop working entirelly. And then there's edge cases, whose handling was entirely forgotten.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ah, but it's not unrelated, see, because now the cache invalidation logic that you hacked together to fix it last time isn't triggering when it should, because you were using that condition as a hack based on the assumption that code wouldn't be doing what it's now doing. You're gonna have to rewrite that entire bit in a more principled way. I think I lost track of the metaphor a bit here.

[–] heartbreaker@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Is this all just AI talking to each other?

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

Of course

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