His loved ones said that his mental health is “deteriorating rapidly” as a result.
“A case like this has a maximum sentence of 20 years,” attorney David Haigh told The Mail on Sunday.
Although the prosecutor always gets to choose the punishment, this was a light sentencing for them. The concern is that they won’t want to seem weak and let this go.”
The apprentice builder has not yet been imprisoned in the notorious al-Awir Central Prison, which houses gangsters, terrorists, and murders.
In order to avoid going to prison completely, he is hoping that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid AI Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, would pardon him.
