Boyfriend charged after causing disability, head injury to teen girl’s father

A Bahraini father was left to suffer from a broken skull and permanent disability for attempting to stop his daughter and her boyfriend from driving away. The case was reported from Sanabis Village in the Capital Governorate. According to court files, the incidents leading to case occurred when the teen’s father learned on the day at 6 am that his 16-year-old daughter had left the house at 3 am and haven’t returned yet.

The matter took a disastrous turn when the father sighted her daughter reaching home with her boyfriend in a car. Seeing his angry father, the girl and her boyfriend tried to sneak away. However, the father who spotted them tried to stop the car by grabbing on to its bonnet only to come crashing down, banging his head hard on the asphalt, when the boy reversed the car forcefully. He was rushed to Salmaniya Medical Complex and remained in the Intensive Care Unit with a broken skull and internal haemorrhage.

The duo was later arrested and referred to the Public Prosecution where they admitted that they were in a relationship for the past three years. The boyfriend, a 20-yearold Bahraini, told the interrogators that he went to pick the girl from her house in Sanabis after receiving a message from her to reach there at 3 am. The boy claimed that he reversed the car as his girlfriend asked him to do so, adding that the victim fell to the floor when he attempted to stop the vehicle.

The Public Prosecution accused the man of assault that caused the 54-year-old man permanent disability.  The High First High Criminal Court adjourned the case to April 9 and ordered to keep the defendant behind bars until then.