An award-winning army surgeon who battered his spouse is being hunted by police after fleeing to the Center East.
Dr Firas Bakri was granted bail after spending an evening in custody after which admitting a home assault and an assault on a 13-year-old woman.
However Bakri - who arrange an revolutionary tech firm in Scotland - failed to look for sentence at this time and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
It's understood that Bakri - who was learning a Masters diploma at Dundee College - has returned to Jordan the place he was previously a army surgeon.
Bakri, 43, previously of Seafield Shut, Dundee, admitted assaulting his spouse Rana Tarawneh by pushing her physique and seizing her by the pinnacle on October 2.
He additionally admitted attacking a teenage woman, who can't be named for authorized causes, by pulling her hair and headbutting her on the brow.
Dundee Sheriff Courtroom was instructed that Bakri had requested his spouse if she needed to exit and do one thing collectively, however she declined as a result of he had been moody for days.
The incident sparked an argument between the couple and the complainer finally screamed at her husband to "go away."
The court docket was instructed that a little one witness noticed Bakri push the girl backwards onto a mattress and was then pushed herself when he noticed she was watching.
Bakri pushed the kid again and stated: "Don't converse to me like that." Mrs Tarawneh then hit Bakri from behind and urged him to cease being violent in direction of the kid.
He pushed her again, inflicting her to fall on the mattress, and as he continued the assault, witnesses might hear her calling upon somebody to contact the police.
The court docket was instructed that the witnesses then heard a "loud thump" coming from the couple's bed room and regarded in to see the sufferer mendacity on the mattress.
As he walked out of the bed room he stopped to seize the watching little one by the hair, earlier than headbutting her on the brow. One other little one who might hear the incident was discovered hiding in worry.
Bakri - who met his spouse at Jordan College medical college in 2000 - was arrested and spent an evening behind bars on 2 October earlier than showing in court docket the next day to confess each expenses.
Sentence was deferred then for the preparation of social work studies and he was granted bail. He was on account of seem for sentence on Tuesday.
It's understood that Bakri - who has mounted appreciable money owed - has returned to Jordan, the place he has a earlier conviction for a home incident.
Sheriff John Rafferty was instructed that Bakri had not appeared and he stated: "There may be nothing else I can do however grant a warrant."
Bakri, who spent 9 years in army service, got here to Scotland round three years in the past and his education-related visa is because of expire subsequent month.
He attended Dundee College, the place he graduated with a Masters in Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgical procedure, and gained the Centre for Entrepreneurship's College of Medication Enterprise Award.
He co-founded medical expertise enterprise Xavier Bionix within the metropolis. The corporate specialises in growing rising and disruptive expertise to be used within the medical trade.
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