Inside Dubai prison teen will be locked up for holiday romance

Inmates have reported ‘appalling’ conditions (Picture: AFP)

British teenager Marcus Fakana is facing a year in Dubai’s Al Awir prison, where inmates have reported ‘torturous’ and ‘hellish’ conditions for having sex with a holiday romance.

The 18-year-old was on holiday in the UAE with his family last September, when the mother of a 17-year-old girl he had a holiday ‘fling’ with reported him to the police.

Marcus, who is from Tottenham, surrendered himself to authorities in...