The woman in Dubai who reported her late husband’s British ex to police for labelling her “a horse” has said she is willing to drop the case.
Laleh Shahravesh, 55, faced up to two years in jail and a £50,000 fine over two social media comments under the country’s severe cyber-crime laws.
After husband of 18 years Pedro Manuel Coreia Dos Santos re-married to Samah Al Hammadi, she said: “I hope you go under the ground. Damn you. You left me for this horse.” A second post read: “You married a horse, you idiot.”
Laleh was held at Dubai airport last month as she and daughter Paris, 14, flew in for Pedro’s funeral after he suffered a heart attack.
She is due in court on Thursday but Samah, 42, said yesterday: “One of the last messages he [Pedro] gave me before his death was that he deeply loved his daughter.
“I am willing to withdraw this case to honour my husband’s love for his daughter.”
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Earlier, Tunisian-born Samah said he decided to make the complaint after “suffering in silence” for over a year. She claimed Laleh had sent numerous disparaging messages to her and Portuguese Pedro since the divorce.
She said: “She has been abusing him, sending emails, even to his boss in the bank, saying I am a b****, that I took him from her, that she doesn’t have money.”
Radha Stirling of Detained in Dubai said her organisation and the Foreign Office had asked Samah to back down.
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Ms Stirling said “distraught” Laleh, of Richmond, Surrey, had been given bail but her passport was confiscated and she was living in a hotel.
She said Paris was “very upset” and had “been through what you would call hell”.
Ms Stirling added “no one would really be aware” of the severity of cyber-crime laws in the United Arab Emirates and the Foreign Office has failed to adequately warn tourists.
A spokesman for the Foreign Office said last night: “Our staff are supporting a British woman and her family following her detention in the UAE.”
