Marcus Fakana, from north London, has been sentenced to a year in prison in relation to the holiday romance. It is illegal to have sex with a person under 18 years of age in Dubai.

A British teen jailed in Dubai after having a holiday romance with a 17-year-old girl from London has pleaded with the emirate's ruler to "let me go home".

A British teenager has been jailed in Dubai for having sex with a 17-year-old girl while the pair were on holiday. Marcus Fakana, an 18-year-old from Tottenham in north London, was on a trip with his parents when he struck up a holiday romance with the girl, who was staying at the same hotel.

Marcus Fakana, of Tottenham, north London, began the secretive holiday romance in September with another Londoner, who is now aged 18. After returning home and seeing pictures and chats, the girl's mother reported the relationship to Dubai police,

A British teenager has been sentenced to one year in prison in Dubai after having consensual sex with a fellow British teen during a holiday romance. Marcus Fakana, 18, from Tottenham, North London, was arrested in September after an encounter with a British-Indian girl who was 17 at the time but is now 18.

Marcus Fakana, from Tottenham, was on a getaway with his family when a secret ‘holiday romance blossomed’ with the girl, who is now 18.