A man was charged in a Dubai court with making criminal threats against his former employer.

The 26-year-old Pakistani is accused of threatening the Chinese woman, who is a restaurant owner, after she fired him and handed his passport over to the police.

The accused denied the woman's accusations when he appeared in the Court of First Instance. He claimed he only threatened to hurt himself if he did not get back his passport. The incident took place on April 22 at the restaurant in the International City.

The 29-year-old complainant said she had hired the accused for a one-week probation period after she posted an ad in a Chinese newspaper.

"He was on a visit visa and I told him I would try him for one week. However, after some customers complained about his behaviour, I had to let him go. But he refused to leave the place and destroyed the mobile phone of my business partner."

The complainant filed two complaints against him after which he vowed not to harass her again. "I hired him again later to make him compensate for the damage. But he was not a good worker. He was always distracted with his phone.

"I went to the police station and deposited his passport there and told them I would go ahead in my complaint against him," she told the prosecutor.

"Around 5pm on April 22, he barged into the restaurant and threatened me with a kitchen knife. At noon two days later, he also showed up outside the building where I stayed, claiming back his passport. At 11.30pm on the same day, he attacked me near my car. I had to call the police".

Her business partner said the accused destroyed her mobile phone after he was told to leave the restaurant.

Source: Khaleej Times