A couple jailed for kissing in public in Dubai claim the man was only trying to give the woman CPR when she suffered an asthma attack. The pair, a 28-year-old Indian man and a 25-year-old Filipino woman, were spotted ‘wrestling’ by an Emirati child who told his mother who called the police.

The lovebirds will now have to spend a year in jail, after which they will be deported. The couple, co-workers at a Dubai McDonald’s, were seen in an intimate situation in the lifeguard tower on Jumeirah Open Beach on December 17.