How a teenager’s holiday romance led to prison time in Dubai

Cosmin Pîrv

CNN  —  Holiday romances are the stuff of rom-coms and chick-lit — but not for 18-year-old Marcus Fakana, who is facing a one-year prison sentence for his summer fling. The construction apprentice from London was on holiday with his family in Dubai in September when he met a fellow British teenager at his hotel, and they began a romantic relationship that became sexual. The pair planned to continue their budding connection in London. But when the 17-year-old girl returned to the United Kingdom,

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