Deported European woman re-enters Bahrain using friend’s passport 'to stay with boyfriend'

A European woman, who was earlier deported from the Kingdom after being convicted in a prostitution case, was caught after re-entering Bahrain two months later using her friend’s passport, it was recently revealed.

Justifying her act, the woman told the prosecutors that she couldn’t stay away from her boyfriend, a GCC national, who is residing in Bahrain.   

The woman is now facing trial before the First High Criminal Court, which recently ordered to adjourn the case to February 12 this year to announce its verdict in the case.

Court files show that the defendant was caught in 2018 in a prostitution case and she was deported in September in the same year.

She travelled to a GCC country, and there, she stole her friend’s passport and used it as if it was her own to travel to Bahrain two months later.

According to the details of the case, the woman succeeded in entering the Kingdom, but, the investigation of Bahrain International Airport Police proved that she was deported on September 5, 2018, and launched a search operation to nab her.

The defendant was eventually found residing in one of the hotels in the Capital and she was immediately apprehended, according to Prosecutors.  

In the interrogation she confessed to her crime and told the interrogators that she was deported in September in 2018 because of her involvement in a prostitution case.

Moreover, she said in her statements that in December of the same year, she stole a passport from her friend while they were staying in a GCC country and used it to enter Bahrain again, justifying her action for the fact that she wants to stay with her boyfriend, a Gulf national, who’s staying in Bahrain.