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'Sex on the beach' couple spared jail

Source: The independent
Dubai : United Arab Emirates | about 1 year ago  
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A British couple convicted of having sex on a beach in Dubai had their three-month jail sentences suspended today, their lawyer said. Michelle Palmer, 36, of Oakham, Rutland, and Vince Acors, 34, of Bromley, south east London, were freed at Dubai's Court of Appeal.
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  • News Source: The Scotsman | about 1 year ago
    OF ALL the beaches, in all the resorts, in all the world, they had to cavort on Jumeirah's golden sands. Four fraught months after the waters of the Persian Gulf licked at their feet during a champagne-sodden tryst, Michelle Palmer and Vince Acors...
  • News Source: The Daily Star | about 1 year ago
    An appeals court in Dubai on Tuesday suspended three-month jail terms against two Britons convicted of having sex on the beach in the booming Gulf city-state but ordered them to leave the country. Michelle Palmer, 36, and Vince Acors, 34, who have...
  • News Source: Gulfnews.com | about 1 year ago
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  • News Source: United Press International | about 1 year ago
    A United Arab Emirates judge has suspended the sentences against a British couple arrested in Dubai for having public sex on a beach, attorneys say. The pair, Michelle Palmer, 36, of Rutland, and Vince Acors, 34, of southeast London, were convicted...
  • News Source: AKI | about 1 year ago
    A Dubai appeals court on Tuesday freed a British couple found guilty of having sex in a local beach. The British couple, Michelle Palmer, 36, and Vince Acors, 34, will now be deported from the United Arab Emirates, after the suspension of their three...
  • News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader | about 1 year ago
    A British couple convicted of having sex on a Dubai beach had their prison sentences suspended by an appeals court on Tuesday in a case that exposed a cultural divide in this glitzy Gulf boomtown. Michelle Palmer and Vince Acors were convicted and...
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