Marcus Fakana, from north London, has been sentenced to a year in prison in relation to the holiday romance. It is illegal to have sex with a person under 18 years of age in Dubai.

A British teenager jailed in Dubai for having sex with a 17-year-old girl has said it “never occurred” to him that his holiday romance would break the law...

An 18-year-old British man, Marcus Fakana, is appealing for clemency from Dubai's ruler after being sentenced to one year in prison for having a consensual sexual relationship with a 17-year-old British girl while on vacation. Fakana, from north London ...

AN 18-YEAR-old Black British teenager who was sentenced to a year in a Dubai prison after a “holiday romance” with a 17-year-old British girl has pleaded to return home. Marcus Fakana, 18, from north London, was charged with having sex with the 17-year-old girl, who has now turned 18.

The Prime Minister is being kept up to date with the case of the British teen sentenced to a year in jail over a holiday romance in Dubai, Downing Street has said. Marcus Fakana, 18, was left shocked after being handed a 12-month prison sentence on Wednesday for having sex with a girl aged 17 during a family holiday earlier this year.

Marcus Fakana has been sentenced to a year in jail for having sex with a 17-year-old London girl while in the United Arab Emirates.

A British teen jailed in Dubai after having a holiday romance with a 17-year-old girl from London has pleaded with the emirate's ruler to "let me go home".

An 18-year-old British man who had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old British girl in Dubai while the pair were on holiday with their families has been sentenced to one year in prison, a campaign group has said.

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.