A waiter who posed as a policeman and attempted to blackmail his employer out of BD5,000 has lost anย appeal against his jail sentence.
The 28-year-old Kenyan national sent the restaurant owner a note threatening to expose his alleged affair with a married Bahraini woman if he did not cough up the cash.
He claimed in the note that the Italian man would be ‘in danger’ย if he did not place an envelope of cash on a gas cylinder outside the restaurant in Janusan.
He was arrested after he sent more threatening messages from his mobile phone.
Security cameras also caught the defendant leaving the threatening note outside the restaurant on August 2.
‘I found a letter, with an Interior Ministry logo, from a man who said was a lieutenant,’ย the Italian man said in his statement to prosecutors.
‘He claimed I washaving an affair with a Bahraini woman and my life was in danger because of that.
‘He added that if I did not pay him BD5,000 within 14 days he was going to carry out the threat against me.
‘I later found out the man was a waiter at the restaurant because he continued to send me threatening messages from his mobile phone.’
The Lower Criminal Court sentenced the Kenyan to a month behind bars, but he lodged an appeal at the High Criminal Appeals Court which yesterday upheld the initial verdict.
