The Prime Minister is being kept up to date with the case of the British teen sentenced to a year in jail over a holiday romance in Dubai, Downing Street has said. Marcus Fakana, 18, was left shocked after being handed a 12-month prison sentence on Wednesday for having sex with a girl aged 17 during a family holiday earlier this year.

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.