Passports hitch delays return of sex-on-beach Britons

Two Britons convicted of having sex on a Dubai beach were “enduring difficulties” getting home today, it was claimed.

Michelle Palmer, (aged 36), and Vince Acors, (aged 34), were intending to fly back to the UK over the next 24 hours after their jail terms were suspended.

But Acors’ lawyer, Andrew Crossley, said authorities have yet to return the pair’s passports.

Palmer and Acors are now facing the threat of “a day or so” in jail while deportation laws are clarified, he said.

Mr Crossley said: “They are encountering very frustrating difficulties. This is something we are obviously fighting.”

Palmer, of Oakham, Rutland, and Acors, of Bromley, south east London, had their three-month prison terms suspended on appeal on Tuesday.

The couple had been found guilty of having sex on Jumeirah Beach, hours after meeting at a champagne brunch at a five-star hotel. Palmer had been working in Dubai as a publishing executive but was sacked after the allegations emerged. Acors was visiting the country at the time of their arrest.