Dubai mother's jail nightmare; Adultery woman feels 'abandoned' in prison.Byline: LAURA Laura, subject of the love poems of Petrarch. She is thought to be Laura de Noves (1308?–1348), wife of Hugo de Sade, but this has not been proved. Laura Petrarch’s perpetual, unattainable love. [Ital. Lit. SHARPE A LIVERPOOL mother-of-two locked up in a Dubai prison for cheating on her husband has spoken of her misery. Sally Antia said she felt "confused, frightened and totally abandoned" after spending four weeks behind bars in an underground cell in Bur Dabai police station. The Liverpool FC fan, a former pupil at Kingsthorne Primary School, in Hunts Cross, said she is sharing a single bed with a Russian inmate and given food infested in·fest tr.v. in·fest·ed, in·fest·ing, in·fests 1. To inhabit or overrun in numbers or quantities large enough to be harmful, threatening, or obnoxious: with maggots. Mrs Antia faces up to a year in jail and deportation deportation, expulsion of an alien from a country by an act of its government. The term is not applied ordinarily to sending a national into exile or to committing one convicted of crime to an overseas penal colony (historically called transportation). after she admitted adultery. Her airline pilot husband reported her to police. Pointing to the grey Liverpool FC top she was wearing, the 44-year-old said: "This is the only thing keeping me going right now. "I am trying not to be bitter and twisted. I will accept my sentence and just deal with it. "It is filthy here. The food - when you get it - has maggots in it. The lights are on all day and night. I have no-one to talk to. "I am confused, frightened and I feel totally abandoned." Mrs Antia and construction supervisor Mark Hawkins, who had flown to Dubai, were arrested at a top hotel at 2.30am last month. Their passports were confiscated con·fis·cate tr.v. con·fis·cat·ed, con·fis·cat·ing, con·fis·cates 1. To seize (private property) for the public treasury. 2. To seize by or as if by authority. See Synonyms at appropriate. adj. and they were locked up. Mr Hawkins, whose parents live in Warrington, is being held in a menonly jail in the same Dur Dubai police station. Mrs Antia said she has accepted visits from her husband so she can stay in touch with her children. She added: "I would never allow my children to come here and see me in prison, so when my husband comes, I see him. "I have gone through the whole spectrum of emotion. "I have been in Dubai for 12 years. I am probably going to be deported, so I will have to start a whole new life." CAPTION(S): Sally Antia |
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