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Dubai jail mother in Facebook wars
By Mike PyleFebruary 14, 2009
A war of words has broken out on Facebook over Marnie Pearce's guilt.
The mum-of-two, was sentenced to jail in Dubai last month for adultery.
A group set up on the online networking site claims Marnie, originally from Bracknell, did cheat on her husband and asks people to “check both sides of the story before judging”.
But 40-year-old Marnie, who has lived in Dubai since 1993, also has a group called ‘Please help me to keep my babies’ which has almost 4,000 members.
On the site Marnie tells her side of the story.
She says: “How can anyone take the mother away from two small babies?
“How can this be justified? This is barbaric, this country has been my life for the last 13 years.
“I have adapted, practised and supported the system – and now to be treated like this?”
Last year her ex-husband Egyptian Ihab El-Labban accused her of cheating on her, a crime punishable with a custodial sentence under sharia law in the Arab emirate.
Former teaching assistant Marnie’s six-month sentence was reduced to three months at an appeal in January and she was fined
Under Dubai rules, it is likely Marnie will be deported on her release and lose custody of her two boys, Laith, seven, and four-year-old Ziad.
Bizarrely, it is up to Marnie’s ex Ihab to choose when she will start serving her sentence.
The whereabouts of the distraught mum, whose family still lives in Great Hollands, is unknown.
More than 100 people have joined the group called ‘Marnie Pearce TRUE STORY’.
Creator Waleed Sabet says he is a friend of Ihab’s and that Ihab is “honest, good, kind, generous, hard working and very loving”.
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