Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Sydney businessman reveals his five-year Dubai prison nightmare...

In 2006, Marcus Lee was offered a job in Dubai, working for one of the country's largest property developers. He and his wife Julie, both accountants from Sydney, decided to take a chance on the offer and made the move to the United Arab Emirates.

Three years after they moved, Marcus was arrested for a crime he didn't commit and spent nine months in Dubai prisons, including two months in solitary confinement, and four years under house arrest as he fought to clear his name.

Marcus, 45, and Julie, 50, whose ordeal finally came to an end in January when they were able to return to Australia, have written a book about the experience.

The book, Trapped, consists largely of Marcus's diary entries from the time of his imprisonment. In the book he tells how the process of writing about his ordeal and the love notes smuggled to him by Julie on her prison visits were his 'lifeline'.

After the couple relocated to Dubai, Marcus says 'Everything was going along happily for a few years' before he was hauled into a police station and questioned about a man he had never met and a payment his company had made to another company. Full story...

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