A teenager who was jailed in Dubai for engaging in a consensual relationship with a girl has tragically died in a car accident three months after his release.

Detained in Dubai, a UK-based legal aid firm that represented him during his incarceration, confirmed that 19 year old Marcus Fakana passed away yesterday following a collision in Tottenham, North London.

The young man had been sentenced to a year in jail in the UAE last December after forming a consensual relationship with a British girl, who was 17 at the time, while he was 18. In Dubai, there is no age of consent, and all sexual activity outside of marriage is prohibited.

Upon returning home and discovering pictures and messages between the pair, the girl's mother reported the relationship to the Dubai police, leading to Marcus

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