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 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, "feels abandoned by the British government and Keir Starmer ", Detained in Dubai said. Radha Stirling, the group's chief executive, said the sentence was an "utter disgrace" and "an embarrassment to Britain",