A doctor shows a hallway at the medical centre of Dubai's Al-Awir central prison (AFP/Getty) In the desert some 30km from central Dubai’s towering hotels and lavish shopping malls is a “hellish” Dubai prison, where inmates talk of being subjected to ...

A British teenager has been jailed in Dubai for having sex with a 17-year-old girl while the pair were on holiday. Marcus Fakana, an 18-year-old from Tottenham in north London, was on a trip with his parents when he struck up a holiday romance with the girl, who was staying at the same hotel.

Marcus Fakana, an 18-year-old U.K. resident, was sentenced to a year in prison in Dubai for having sexual relations with a 17-year-old.

Marcus Fakana, an 18-year-old Briton, has been sentenced to one year in a Dubai prison following a holiday romance with a 17-year-old girl, also from London. The case has sparked widespread criticism,