Denied charges: Rebecca Blake has been sentenced to three months in a Dubai jail for having sex in the back of a taxi after a 10 hour drinking binge..
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A British woman has been sentenced to three months in a Dubai jail followed by deportation for having drunken sex in the back of a taxi in the city.
Rebecca Blake, 29, had been arrested earlier this year after partially stripping off in the back of the cab after a 10-hour drinking binge.
Irishman Conor McRedmond, 28, with whom she was caught, was also convicted and received the same sentence, despite DNA tests to find evidence of intercourse coming back negative.
Accused: Rebecca Blake, 29, left, and Conor McRedmond, 28, right, denied having sex in the back of a Dubai taxi in May, but admitted to indulging in an all-day drinking binge.
Sentenced: Rebecca Blake, left, and Conor McRedmond, centre, walk with their lawyer Shaker al-Shammary outside the Dubai Courts.
Miss Blake wore a black dress to court with a brown blazer and kept her sunglasses on outside the building.
The pair have been released on bail pending an appeal hearing in January but will have to spend Christmas in Dubai because their passports have been taken away.
Recruitment consultant Blake, from Dorking in Surrey, was arrested on May 4 after first meeting McRedmond just hours earlier.
Their taxi driver alerted police after spotting Blake in his rearview mirror with her top off, straddling McRedmond and ‘making the sounds of a woman having sex’.
Jailed: Ms Blake (second right) and Mr McRedmond (left) chat with their lawyer Shaker Al Shammary (second left) and Ms Blake's sister Natasha Todd (far right) outside the Dubai Courts earlier this year.
Blake, who moved to Dubai in September last year to take up a £100,000-a-year-post at Manpower recruitment firm, had been at a drink-all-you-like £35-a-head brunch in the Rotana Hotel. She previously said: ‘They just kept filling up my glass. It’s all a blur.’