According to campaign group Detained in Dubai, who has been representing Mr Fakana throughout his trial, allege that after returning to the UK and seeing pictures and chats, the girl's mother reported the relationship to Dubai police, who then arrested Mr Fakana at his hotel.
British teenager begins Dubai jail sentence over holiday romance Marcus Fakana sends message thanking ‘everyone who has supported me throughout my fight’.
A British teenager sentenced to one year in a Dubai jail over a holiday romance with a 17-year-old girl has handed himself in to begin his sentence.
Mr Fakana, from Tottenham, north London, claims he did not know the girl was months younger than him when they met.
She had to meet me without telling them it was to see a boy”, Mr Fakana previously said.
