Famous designer acquitted of embezzlement, defamation

The Lower Criminal Court has acquitted a famous Bahraini designer of embezzling and insulting a Bahraini woman, who was his customer.

According to prosecutors, the accused had received an order from the plaintiff to make a wedding dress for her. The dress, however, did not match her expectations and she refused to receive it. The woman filed a complaint with the police stating that the accused posted a video on social media with an intention to defame her after cheating her money by not delivering the proper wedding dress.

The designer’s lawyer Manar Al Tamimi, however, argued that the case against her client was malicious because he delivered the dress and it was the plaintiff who refused to receive it. “My client agreed with the plaintiff to make a wedding dress. The dress material was given by the woman and she requested to make some changes on it after wearing for the first time. My client happily accepted to revise it according to her needs,” Al Tamimi said.

The Bahraini woman then dodged all the attempts made by the designer to hand over her the dress and filed a police complaint.