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This is a story close to my heart, Gobby has also been following progression of Marnies case. Thought I would share it with you all, its all long story but please bear with me and read it through.
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Marnies Story
Teaching assistant Marnie Pearce has now been jailed and faces never seeing her two young children again. Marnie, 40, originally from Bracknell , Berks, insists she never cheated on her ex-husband Ihab El-Labban and has been framed so he could win custody of their two sons Laith, seven and Ziad, four.
Once she has served her three-month jail term Marnie is set to be deported back to the UK without her children.Marnie took the heart-breaking decision to hand herself in at a Dubai police station on Thursday because she felt it was unfair on her children to live in hiding.
Speaking hours before being locked up Marnie said: 'Handing myself in is the hardest thing I have ever done, but for the sake of the children I have no choice. 'I have been waiting for three weeks in the belief that I may have been granted bail or the charges dropped. 'I still do not know, but for the sake of my babies we must move on. 'I don't regret hiding away with them, to spend as much time as I can with them as I may never see them again. 'We have snuggled and cuddled and played and laughed. 'They have cried rivers and they will continue too. I have told them mummy must go to prison because if I don't eventually the police will come and look for us. 'I can't even begin to put into words the feelings of desperation, loss, fear and numbness that I feel.'
Before arriving at the police station Marnie handed over the children to her ex-husband. A friend said: 'It was an incredibly emotional day. Marnie was devastated but she felt she had nochoice.' Officers took Marnie to Dubai Central Prison - home to 5,000 inmates. Marnie won't be allowed visitors for a week and friends say she was suicidal as she was led off to jail.
Human rights campaign group Amnesty International are now demanding Marnie is freed. Steve Ballinger, of Amnesty, said: 'Marnie Pearce is a prisoner of conscience and should be released immediately..' Her family and friends are also calling on the British Government to step in and help.
Marnie met ex husband El-Labban 16 years ago after moving to Oman . They moved to Dubai shortly after but the marriage broke down last year. After El-Labban accused Marnie of an affair police officers stormed her apartment in March moments after she arrived home with a male friend.
The pair were arrested and four months later El-Labban handed over five used condoms, men's underpants and a man's jacket to police. Prosecutors demanded a DNA sample from Marnie and ruled there was a match. But they made no attempt to contact the man allegedly involved. Marnie claims her ex-husband planted the evidence to frame her but she lost an appeal in January to have the conviction over-turned.
Save Marnies Babies
Marnies Story
Teaching assistant Marnie Pearce has now been jailed and faces never seeing her two young children again. Marnie, 40, originally from Bracknell , Berks, insists she never cheated on her ex-husband Ihab El-Labban and has been framed so he could win custody of their two sons Laith, seven and Ziad, four.
Once she has served her three-month jail term Marnie is set to be deported back to the UK without her children.Marnie took the heart-breaking decision to hand herself in at a Dubai police station on Thursday because she felt it was unfair on her children to live in hiding.
Speaking hours before being locked up Marnie said: 'Handing myself in is the hardest thing I have ever done, but for the sake of the children I have no choice. 'I have been waiting for three weeks in the belief that I may have been granted bail or the charges dropped. 'I still do not know, but for the sake of my babies we must move on. 'I don't regret hiding away with them, to spend as much time as I can with them as I may never see them again. 'We have snuggled and cuddled and played and laughed. 'They have cried rivers and they will continue too. I have told them mummy must go to prison because if I don't eventually the police will come and look for us. 'I can't even begin to put into words the feelings of desperation, loss, fear and numbness that I feel.'
Before arriving at the police station Marnie handed over the children to her ex-husband. A friend said: 'It was an incredibly emotional day. Marnie was devastated but she felt she had nochoice.' Officers took Marnie to Dubai Central Prison - home to 5,000 inmates. Marnie won't be allowed visitors for a week and friends say she was suicidal as she was led off to jail.
Human rights campaign group Amnesty International are now demanding Marnie is freed. Steve Ballinger, of Amnesty, said: 'Marnie Pearce is a prisoner of conscience and should be released immediately..' Her family and friends are also calling on the British Government to step in and help.
Marnie met ex husband El-Labban 16 years ago after moving to Oman . They moved to Dubai shortly after but the marriage broke down last year. After El-Labban accused Marnie of an affair police officers stormed her apartment in March moments after she arrived home with a male friend.
The pair were arrested and four months later El-Labban handed over five used condoms, men's underpants and a man's jacket to police. Prosecutors demanded a DNA sample from Marnie and ruled there was a match. But they made no attempt to contact the man allegedly involved. Marnie claims her ex-husband planted the evidence to frame her but she lost an appeal in January to have the conviction over-turned.
RECENT NEWS. February 19th 2009
Marnie Pearce Statement
Today will have been the hardest thing that I have ever done in my life. I have no choice but to hand myself into the police. I have been waiting for three weeks in the belief that I may have been granted Bail. I still do not know, but for the sake of my babies we must move on. We have nowhere else to go and my little men 'need' some normality in there lives, for them school was everything and I made the decision to withdraw them in order for us to spend our last days together. The boys were extremely distraught after the 'car chase' incident in which I had four babies and another adult with me, through the streets of Jumeirah. What he did and what he has done with regards to these physical attacks in the past 11 months have deeply scared them both. God willing Ziad will not remember such things, but the pain of losing me will be there.
Laith, however, has and will continue to store such memories in his mind. He loves his father but his fear of me being taken from him has given him a fear of his father. This is terrible because Laith loves him so much, and Ihab has damaged him by trying to take him from me in such terrible circumstances. I have written at great lengths in the past 11 months and I hope that one day, my boys become beautiful young men and have the courage to stand in front of their father and ask just one thing "why did you take our mum from us?". They will read what has happened in such detail. I don't regret hiding away with them for the last few weeks, to spend as much time as humanly possible with them, before facing upto the fact of never seeing them for a very,very long time., During this time, we have snuggled and cuddled and played and laughed, we laughed a lot. Laith says I'm the funniest mum in the world, how cool is that? We also talked, I have all along been very honest with Laith and Ziad from the onset. Ihab had told me sometime back that 'if' I went to prison he would tell them I was 'away' on holiday.............that was when I made a promise to myself and to them that I would be completely and utterly honest about each and every action. The possibilities - good or bad.
I told them a week ago that I would be forced to hand them over to Daddy, and that I have no choice. They have cried rivers and they will continue too. I have told them that Mummy must go to prison because if I don't eventually the police will come and look for us and that wouldn't be nice for them. I have told them as I do always and have done ever since day one that 'Daddy loves them', that 'Daddy adores them', I have no doubt in my mind of this. It is one of the only consolations that I have in my heart is that they will be 'safe' with him. I have all along from day one and from before, said that Ihab can be a good Dad, But the love is not the same between them. And the boys love for him has proven this fact.
The other consolation being that they are extremely close to me and that I have been the best mother that I could possibly have been, I may not be perfect but I have given them everything that god says you should give to your babies. They are my life and I would die for them, I really have battled and fought so hard and only god knows what lays ahead.
I cannot even begin to put into words the feelings of desperation, loss, fear and numbness that I feel. It really is like something has been driven through my chest, I have the most horrendous worries that only a mum could ever have, who will wipe their tears when they fall? who will pick them up when they are down? who will ask them what they did at the end of every school day? who will read with them and teach right from wrong? who will make sure they flush the toilet? who will cheer them on at sports day? How does he/she know what they eat, what they like, what they don't like? who will do their homework with them and make sure they are warm, and that they are never alone? who will be the first person they see when they wake and the last person when they sleep, who will they talk to about there first girlfriends? who will they share there dreams with? who will go to Laith's school and sit with him in his Dyslexia class? who will know the P.E days of each one, who will know when their library books need changing, who will make sure they have there swimming things on the right day, who will wipe there tears when another child is horrible to them, who will arrange their play dates, who will teach them 'proper' English at home? who will sew the hems of his shorts when there too long, who will even notice? Who will answer the million 'why' questions that they ask me everyday? who will tell them about nanny, granddad and uncles and aunts in my family? THE MAID.....
MY CHILDREN HAVE NEVER, EVER, LEFT THE HOUSE WITH A MAID EVER IN THEIR LIVES. I HAD A MAID LIKE MOST WOMEN HERE, BUT UNLIKE A LOT OF MAIDS MINE HAD ONE JOB AND ONE JOB ONLY. CLEAN, CLEAN AND MORE CLEANING. MY MAID DID NOT EVEN WALK OUR DOG. WHEN MY MAID ARRIVED SHE HAD LIED TO US AND SAID SHE HAD NO CHILDREN, TWO DAYS LATER SHE ADMITTED IT. SHE LEFT HERS BEHIND.
ANSWER. A man that travels the minimum of 12 days a month, with a global position at work. But then maybe he will marry Tonya (The woman he has an affair with, whilst married to me) , and bring her here and try to replace me. My children have met her, they know her. I do not care about this , because she is welcome to him– but I do care about being deported from the Emirates and not being able to see my children again.
The MAID
A completely ILLITERATE housemaid that was brought from Indonesia and finished school at 9 years old. Cannot speak English, literally.. This maid has 'house sat' in my home, that I own half of and she has been paid to witness against me. Suddenly she will have two small boys to look after.…mmm, I wonder for how long? She is a thief, a liar and extremely unhygienic. She never owned a toothbrush when she arrived and had three abscesses in her mouth when she came. She stank and she never washed because she 'only' washed once per week in Indonesia and she is going to show my boys how to look after themselves?
When this is posted I will be detained already and have said goodbye to Laith and Ziad, and there for them there pain and confusion will really start. They will go back to 'their' bedrooms and 'their toys' and 'their home', the familiar surroundings of before. He will spoil them, give them what they want whatever the cost, but when they put their little heads down to sleep at night none of it, none of it will ever REPLACE me and I know that, but the pain I will feel knowing that I cant console them will forever be on me. Not to reach out and hold them, to wrap myself around them will be unbearable.
For Laith it has been so hard for him to shut down at night and he talks so much to me. It can take him hours to sleep, and when I go to bed and we have slept side by side for 11 months he tells me everything..............I have told Laith that because I wont be there with him, beside him that he can be sure of one thing, so, so sure and that is, that whilst he is thinking of me I will 'always, always' be thinking of him at the 'same' time.
Throughout this horrendous journey Laith and Ziad have proved to be such strong, courageous, kind and cheerful little men............who through my sheer determination to keep them have proved that 'mums love' is all that they needed to keep going. It has been hard and I just hope and pray that Ihab will find it in his heart to allow me to be with them and to let me bring them up. I will be in prison on Laiths birthday and deported before Ziad's 5th birthday – never to see them again according to Dubai courts.
To top it all off I am going to prison over forged documents that have been doctored to suit the prosecution and to Ihab’s ‘Alleged’ allegations about me. This has been analyzed and proven – No court in the civilized world would convict anyone on these falsified documents, which have been submitted to the court.
I have appealed this to the court for March 2nd but I have no faith and no hope left, there is nothing on the face of this earth that could have justified the action of what Ihab has done, I carried the children for nine months and they are as much mine as they are his. After all – He was the one who had the affair that caused all of this.
Please, Please I am begging Ihab to find a way out of here, so that we can BOTH have them. Since, I have been given custody of the children – I should legally have a say on them being brought up as well as Ihab. And if this sentence gets carried out with deportation – this will not be the case. As Laith always said, 'Daddy goes out to earn the money and mummy stays and looks after us' .................please let me bring them up.........................it’ s THEIR right.
The children are the most important here –
Don't take it from them.
Marnie Pearce Statement
Today will have been the hardest thing that I have ever done in my life. I have no choice but to hand myself into the police. I have been waiting for three weeks in the belief that I may have been granted Bail. I still do not know, but for the sake of my babies we must move on. We have nowhere else to go and my little men 'need' some normality in there lives, for them school was everything and I made the decision to withdraw them in order for us to spend our last days together. The boys were extremely distraught after the 'car chase' incident in which I had four babies and another adult with me, through the streets of Jumeirah. What he did and what he has done with regards to these physical attacks in the past 11 months have deeply scared them both. God willing Ziad will not remember such things, but the pain of losing me will be there.
Laith, however, has and will continue to store such memories in his mind. He loves his father but his fear of me being taken from him has given him a fear of his father. This is terrible because Laith loves him so much, and Ihab has damaged him by trying to take him from me in such terrible circumstances. I have written at great lengths in the past 11 months and I hope that one day, my boys become beautiful young men and have the courage to stand in front of their father and ask just one thing "why did you take our mum from us?". They will read what has happened in such detail. I don't regret hiding away with them for the last few weeks, to spend as much time as humanly possible with them, before facing upto the fact of never seeing them for a very,very long time., During this time, we have snuggled and cuddled and played and laughed, we laughed a lot. Laith says I'm the funniest mum in the world, how cool is that? We also talked, I have all along been very honest with Laith and Ziad from the onset. Ihab had told me sometime back that 'if' I went to prison he would tell them I was 'away' on holiday.............that was when I made a promise to myself and to them that I would be completely and utterly honest about each and every action. The possibilities - good or bad.
I told them a week ago that I would be forced to hand them over to Daddy, and that I have no choice. They have cried rivers and they will continue too. I have told them that Mummy must go to prison because if I don't eventually the police will come and look for us and that wouldn't be nice for them. I have told them as I do always and have done ever since day one that 'Daddy loves them', that 'Daddy adores them', I have no doubt in my mind of this. It is one of the only consolations that I have in my heart is that they will be 'safe' with him. I have all along from day one and from before, said that Ihab can be a good Dad, But the love is not the same between them. And the boys love for him has proven this fact.
The other consolation being that they are extremely close to me and that I have been the best mother that I could possibly have been, I may not be perfect but I have given them everything that god says you should give to your babies. They are my life and I would die for them, I really have battled and fought so hard and only god knows what lays ahead.
I cannot even begin to put into words the feelings of desperation, loss, fear and numbness that I feel. It really is like something has been driven through my chest, I have the most horrendous worries that only a mum could ever have, who will wipe their tears when they fall? who will pick them up when they are down? who will ask them what they did at the end of every school day? who will read with them and teach right from wrong? who will make sure they flush the toilet? who will cheer them on at sports day? How does he/she know what they eat, what they like, what they don't like? who will do their homework with them and make sure they are warm, and that they are never alone? who will be the first person they see when they wake and the last person when they sleep, who will they talk to about there first girlfriends? who will they share there dreams with? who will go to Laith's school and sit with him in his Dyslexia class? who will know the P.E days of each one, who will know when their library books need changing, who will make sure they have there swimming things on the right day, who will wipe there tears when another child is horrible to them, who will arrange their play dates, who will teach them 'proper' English at home? who will sew the hems of his shorts when there too long, who will even notice? Who will answer the million 'why' questions that they ask me everyday? who will tell them about nanny, granddad and uncles and aunts in my family? THE MAID.....
MY CHILDREN HAVE NEVER, EVER, LEFT THE HOUSE WITH A MAID EVER IN THEIR LIVES. I HAD A MAID LIKE MOST WOMEN HERE, BUT UNLIKE A LOT OF MAIDS MINE HAD ONE JOB AND ONE JOB ONLY. CLEAN, CLEAN AND MORE CLEANING. MY MAID DID NOT EVEN WALK OUR DOG. WHEN MY MAID ARRIVED SHE HAD LIED TO US AND SAID SHE HAD NO CHILDREN, TWO DAYS LATER SHE ADMITTED IT. SHE LEFT HERS BEHIND.
ANSWER. A man that travels the minimum of 12 days a month, with a global position at work. But then maybe he will marry Tonya (The woman he has an affair with, whilst married to me) , and bring her here and try to replace me. My children have met her, they know her. I do not care about this , because she is welcome to him– but I do care about being deported from the Emirates and not being able to see my children again.
The MAID
A completely ILLITERATE housemaid that was brought from Indonesia and finished school at 9 years old. Cannot speak English, literally.. This maid has 'house sat' in my home, that I own half of and she has been paid to witness against me. Suddenly she will have two small boys to look after.…mmm, I wonder for how long? She is a thief, a liar and extremely unhygienic. She never owned a toothbrush when she arrived and had three abscesses in her mouth when she came. She stank and she never washed because she 'only' washed once per week in Indonesia and she is going to show my boys how to look after themselves?
When this is posted I will be detained already and have said goodbye to Laith and Ziad, and there for them there pain and confusion will really start. They will go back to 'their' bedrooms and 'their toys' and 'their home', the familiar surroundings of before. He will spoil them, give them what they want whatever the cost, but when they put their little heads down to sleep at night none of it, none of it will ever REPLACE me and I know that, but the pain I will feel knowing that I cant console them will forever be on me. Not to reach out and hold them, to wrap myself around them will be unbearable.
For Laith it has been so hard for him to shut down at night and he talks so much to me. It can take him hours to sleep, and when I go to bed and we have slept side by side for 11 months he tells me everything..............I have told Laith that because I wont be there with him, beside him that he can be sure of one thing, so, so sure and that is, that whilst he is thinking of me I will 'always, always' be thinking of him at the 'same' time.
Throughout this horrendous journey Laith and Ziad have proved to be such strong, courageous, kind and cheerful little men............who through my sheer determination to keep them have proved that 'mums love' is all that they needed to keep going. It has been hard and I just hope and pray that Ihab will find it in his heart to allow me to be with them and to let me bring them up. I will be in prison on Laiths birthday and deported before Ziad's 5th birthday – never to see them again according to Dubai courts.
To top it all off I am going to prison over forged documents that have been doctored to suit the prosecution and to Ihab’s ‘Alleged’ allegations about me. This has been analyzed and proven – No court in the civilized world would convict anyone on these falsified documents, which have been submitted to the court.
I have appealed this to the court for March 2nd but I have no faith and no hope left, there is nothing on the face of this earth that could have justified the action of what Ihab has done, I carried the children for nine months and they are as much mine as they are his. After all – He was the one who had the affair that caused all of this.
Please, Please I am begging Ihab to find a way out of here, so that we can BOTH have them. Since, I have been given custody of the children – I should legally have a say on them being brought up as well as Ihab. And if this sentence gets carried out with deportation – this will not be the case. As Laith always said, 'Daddy goes out to earn the money and mummy stays and looks after us' .................please let me bring them up.........................it’ s THEIR right.
The children are the most important here –
Don't take it from them.
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