Campaigners helping British teenager, 18, convicted over 'holiday fling' with UK girl in Dubai say it's 'outrageous' foreign secretary David Lammy 'does not want to help' Campaigners helping a British teenager who was convicted over a holiday romance in the UAE have said it is 'outrageous' that the foreign secretary appears to not want to help them.
Detained in Dubai, a campaign group working closely with the family of Marcus Fakana, has asked David Lammy to raise the case through diplomatic channels after the apprentice builder was sentenced in Dubai last week.
The girl, from London, has since turned 18] Marcus Fakana, 18, had a weeklong holiday romance with a girl, also British, but was arrested and detained after her mother complained to the Dubai police.
Detained in Dubai, a campaign group working closely with the family of Fakana, slammed British Foreign Secretary David Lammy for 'removing himself from the case'.
The girl was just one month away from turning 18, but sex with anyone under the age of 18 is an offence in the Gulf state.
