A BRIT working in Dubai was jailed there for moaning on WhatsApp about a second-hand car.

Estate agent Yaseen Killick, 29, paid £6,000 for the VW Golf only for it to break down within hours.

5 Yaseen Killick, 29, was arrested as he waited at Dubai airport to catch a flight back to Britain Credit: Simon Jones - The Sun

He then discovered it was previously a write-off — so angrily messaged the seller to ask: “How do you sleep at night knowing you are ripping people off?’’

Yaseen, who had moved to the Gulf state with his wife Robyn, 31, was arrested after the man complained to cops.

He spent three weeks behind bars — and was then kicked out of the country.

Yaseen said: “It was a nightmare. The prison conditions were horrific. I was treated appallingly — all for sending a WhatsApp message.”

5 Yaseen and Robyn decided to buy the VW Golf after seeing it advertised in the Dubai version of Gumtree Credit: Simon Jones - The Sun

5 Frustrated Yaseen messaged the car seller about the dodgy motor who complained to local authorities about being sent abusive messages Credit: Simon Jones - The Sun

Wife Robyn, a teacher, sobbed in Kingston, South West London: 'We have lost our home and our jobs and it's been horrible all over this guy ripping us off and we are so badly out of pocket.

''We went there to try as a last adventure before coming back to England and getting married and starting a family but it's left us really badly out of pocket."

5 It later emerged the car that Yaseen and Robyn purchased had been written off in a crash by insurers but then cheaply rebuilt Credit: Simon Jones - The Sun

Her husband was seized at Dubai airport as the couple headed to catch a flight home for Christmas.

Radha Stirling, of pressure group Detained In Dubai, said: ''The United Arab Emirates has some of the strictest cyber crime laws in the world and many people have fallen foul of them - even if they are outside of Dubai.

5 Yaseen Killick said the 'useless' British Embassy told him that they could not get involved in the case Credit: Simon Jones - The Sun

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''Anyone who sends a message to someone in Dubai on electronic media that is critical or a complaint then they can find themselves subject to a police investigation and if convicted they can be fined or even imprisoned.''

Yaseen, who was also fined £1,000, said after spending Christmas in jail: “When everyone was tucking into turkey I had beans, pumpkins and lentils.”

He slammed the British Embassy as “useless”.