Laleh Sharavesh was arrested along with her 14-year-old daughter Paris when she arrived in the Arab kingdom for her ex’s funeral last month.

She discovered her ex-husband’s second wife had complained about the social media post from 2016 and Laleh was held under Dubai’s strict cyber crime laws.

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Laleh Sharavesh was arrested along with her 14-year-old daughter Paris when she arrived in the Arab kingdom for her ex’s funeral last month 

While her 14-year-old daughter was allowed to return home to Britain, Laleh, 55, has been banned from leaving the country as her passport has been confiscated.ADVERTISING

Lawyers have told the single mum she faces up to two years in jail and a fine of £50,000 when she appears in court later this week.

Laleh told Mail Online: ‘I am terrified. I can’t sleep or eat. I have gone down two dress sizes because of the stress.

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Laleh said she wrote two comments in Farsi where she described 42-year-old Tunisian born Samah al Hammadi as a ‘horse’ and called her ex an ‘idiot’

‘And my daughter cries herself to sleep every night. We are so close, especially since her father left us and we only have each other. It breaks my heart to be kept apart from her’.

Her ordeal began on March 14 when Laleh and her daughter flew to Dubai’s for her ex husband Pedro’s funeral.

He died aged 51 from a heart attack on March 3 and Laleh and her daughter, from Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, wanted to pay their final respects.

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Her ordeal began on March 14 when Laleh and her daughter flew to Dubai’s for her ex husband Pedro’s funeral

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Her husband and his new wife Samah Al Hammadi (pictured) were living in Dubai when the Facebook posts were made in October 2016 

Two years earlier after the Portugese banker had left her after 18 years of marriage for a younger woman she lashed out in anger on his Facebook page when she saw a photo of his new wife on their wedding day.

Laleh said she wrote two comments in Farsi where she described 42-year-old Tunisian born Samah al Hammadi as a ‘horse’ and called her ex an ‘idiot’.

As she made the Facebook post while living in the UK she thought nothing more about the comments.

She was unaware al Hammadi had complained to Dubai authorities where social media posts can be used in a prosecution. 

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As soon as Laleh and her daughter landed in Dubai on March 10, intending to stay for five days, they were arrested at the airport

Laleh said: ‘I had no idea he was getting married again, and so soon after our own marriage broke down.

‘I reacted badly. I lashed out and wrote two unpleasant comments about his new wife on his Facebook page.

‘I know shouldn’t have. I should have behaved better, but I felt angry, betrayed and hurt. After 18 years of marriage, such a small amount of time apart, he was getting married so quickly. He didn’t even have enough respect for me to tell me in advance’.

As soon as Laleh and her daughter landed in Dubai on March 10, intending to stay for five days, they were arrested at the airport.

Immigration authorities had an outstanding arrest warrant following the complaint made in 2017 about the Facebook post. 

The two offending posts were: ‘I hope you go under the ground you idiot. Damn you. You left me for this horse’ and ‘You married a horse you idiot’.

The terrified pair spent 12 hours in a police station and were not offered any food and hardly any water.

Laleh said she was offered a statement to sign in Arabic and the translation of the Facebook post bore no relation to what she had written.

The word ‘bitch’ had been substituted for the word ‘horse.’

Laleh was told she could not leave Dubai while she awaited a court hearing.

Her daughter was allowed to fly home and is desperately missing her mother while she stays with friends.

Laleh lived in Dubai for eight months with her husband after he landed a job with the HSBC bank.

She returned home with their daughter expecting her husband to return after he completed his work commitments.

But she later discovered he had begun a relationship with another woman and filed for divorce after 18 years.

Laleh said she had no idea her husband planned to marry so soon after their split.

Her husband and his new wife Samah Al Hammadi were living in Dubai when the Facebook posts were made in October 2016.

Laleh said she has lost her job at a homeless shelter due to her absence and now faces losing her home as she has racked £5,000 in debt while being forced to stay in Dubai.

She said: ‘I have lost everything because of this.

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Jemma Beale , from Bedfont, west London, was handed the prison sentence for perverting the course of justice and perjury after she made fake sex attack claims against 15 men – one of whom was jailed for two years and another fled the country.

The 27-year-old however continues to protest her innocence and today asked senior judges to overturn her conviction.

Her lawyers told the Court of Appeal that the judge hadn’t warned the jury about the ‘myths and stereotypes’ which swirl around false rape claim cases. 

They also claimed, even if she was guilty, she should have been given a shorter sentence because she had been abused as a child.

But Lady Justice Hallett, one of England’s most senior female judges, was one of three judges who dismissed both of the appeals and sent Beale back to prison. 

Lady Justice Hallett said: ‘This case went far further then myths and stereotypes about a complainant’s behaviour. The appellant was accused of being a serial liar who fabricated accounts mostly of a sexual nature.

‘In the light of the evidence called even if the guidance was given it would not have assisted the appellant. 

‘The system of justice has suffered considerable harm – considerable resources have been spent investigating and prosecuting crimes which never happened. There has been no indication of remorse on the appellant’s part.’

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Beale’s lawyers claim the jury in her case were not warned about ‘myths’ surrounding sex attack cases

Earlier in the hearing, Beale’s QC, Gillian Jones, had told the court: ‘The learned judge erred because he failed to give a direction about the dangers of myths and stereotypes.

‘She was the subject of extensive media scrutiny in which she was vilified.

‘The effect of which might have been to further prejudice the jury in the absence of such a direction.

This reporting compounded or could have compounded these myths and stereotypes which were never corrected by way of judicial guidance to the jury.’

Ms Jones argued the jury should have been told at the outset of the trial to disregard ‘pre-conceived’ ideas about rape.

The lawyer referred to a social media post about the case which stated ‘an attractive male does not need to have sex with a whale.’

The judges appeared to accept some of the reporting around the case was ‘sensationalist’, but suggested did not vilify Beale. 

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Lady Justice Hallett said Beale has not shown a shred of remorse

Beale’s lawyers are also calling for her 10-year sentence to be cut, describing it as excessive.

Ms Jones said the judge did not take account of her past, including abuse she went through as a child.

‘That clearly had a huge impact on this young woman’s life and resulted in a rapid downward spiral.

‘This is a very damaged young lady and it clearly had a large part to play in the way she acted.’

Ms Jones added: ‘The nub of it is whether or not sufficient weight was given to what is clearly an extensive history of difficulty.’

Prosecutor John Price, QC, said the sentence and conviction were both safe and proper.

He reminded the court that how Beale texted her then girlfriend saying she was ‘glorying in his discomfort’ as she was due to give false evidence against a man in court. 

During a five-week trial at Southwark Crown Court in 2017, Beale insisted she had been raped or attacked, but a jury found her guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice.

She made her first complaint on the morning of 26 November 2010, when she told police she had been raped by Mahad Cassim the previous night. 

Mr Cassim was tried for rape at Isleworth Crown Court in December 2011.

A retrial then took place in January 2012 in front of a fresh jury and he was jailed for seven years.

Mr Cassim served two years because of the ‘grave injustice’ before he was released. 

Beale then complained to police she was the victim of two sexual assaults in July 2012 and fabricated similar allegations against six other men in 2013, her trial heard.

Her appeal before Lady Justice Hallett, Mr Justice Warby and Sir John Royce continues.

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The gang, based in Warrington, Cheshire, is the biggest ever uncovered in Cheshire raked in £290,000 profit-a-month supplying cocaine and cannabis. 

Shocked police said its arsenal of weapons, including a pump-action shotgun and automatic pistols, was like ‘something out of a film’ and could have caused ‘devastation’

Last Friday at Liverpool Crown Court gang leaders Anthony Cullen, 31, and Chris Houghton, 40, were sentenced to 27 and 20 years respectively.

Their 18 ‘foot soldiers’ and ‘lieutenants’ received sentences of up to 13 years and eight months, thanks to the police operation code-named ‘Samurai’.

Afterwards Geoffrey Fryar, of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said: ‘There was evidence that Cullen paid his ’employees’ wages.

‘Trusted members of the gang were provided with cars and accommodation. The bill for wages and rent on places to store drugs ran to £50,000 per month.’

Det Chief Insp Mike Evans, of Cheshire Police, said: ‘An influential and established organised crime group has been brought to justice and dismantled.

‘Their activity centred on wealth, intimidation and instilling fear into the local community.

‘Cullen ruled the roost and gave out orders.

‘He was clever and made sure he was one step removed from his crimes yet dealt with those who got in his way.

‘The money they made from drug dealing was huge but it came with many risks and dangers as their attention turned to the use of firearms and ammunition.

‘The cache seizure we recovered is the largest we have ever had in Cheshire..’

Officers from Cheshire Police’s Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) were responsible for uncovering the gang’s crimes.

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