{"id":80149,"date":"2025-10-04T07:19:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=80149"},"modified":"2025-10-04T07:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:19:24","slug":"teen-jailed-in-dubai-over-sex-with-girl-dies-in-crash-three-months-after-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/04\/teen-jailed-in-dubai-over-sex-with-girl-dies-in-crash-three-months-after-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen jailed in Dubai over sex with girl dies in crash three months after release"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SEI_230451964-616d.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=646\" alt=\"Undated handout photo issued by Detained in Dubai of Marcus Fakana, 18, who allegedly faces up to 20 years in jail for having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old in Dubai. Marcus, of Tottenham, was with his parents in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from the end of August when a &quot;holiday romance blossomed&quot; with another Londoner, who has since turned 18, campaign group Detained In Dubai said. After returning to the UK and seeing pictures and chats, the girl's mother reported the relationship to Dubai police, who then arrested Mr Fakana at his hotel, it is alleged. Issue date: Thursday November 21, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLICE Dubai. Photo credit should read: Detained in Dubai\/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A British teenager who was jailed in Dubai for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=012545676297898659090:wk87ya_pczq&amp;q=https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/12\/11\/teenager-jailed-one-year-dubai-sex-17-year-old-holiday-22166706\/&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjkscmA94mQAxXcfKQEHVpzGCgQFnoECAYQAg&amp;usg=AOvVaw3Ons_l6fBSUnzArHCOsJfc\" data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\">having sex with a 17-year-old girl<\/a> has been killed in a car crash just three months after regaining his freedom.<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/10\/04\/teen-jailed-dubai-sex-girl-dies-crash-three-months-release-24337116\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A British teenager who was jailed in Dubai for\u00a0having sex with a 17-year-old girl has been killed in a car crash just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Marcus-Fakana.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80150,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80149\/revisions\/80150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}