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A British businesswoman and an Irish welder fell foul of Dubai’s strict decency laws today when they were jailed for cavorting in a taxi.

Rebecca Blake, 29, and Conor McRedmond, 28, were convicted of having sex in the back of the cab after a 10-hour drinking binge.

They were both sentenced to three months for the romp despite the court being told that DNA tests proved they did not have intercourse.

Blake and McRedmond will be deported after serving their jail terms. They were released on bail today pending an appeal in January.

High-flier Blake, who has lost her £100,000-a-year recruitment consultancy job, was accused of stripping naked in the cab and writhing on top of McRedmond.

Sex outside marriage is prohibited in Dubai, and the pair were convicted of “breach of honour with consent”.

They were also found guilty of an indecency charge, which related to stripping off in public.

They romped in the cab just hours after meeting for the first time in a hotel bar.

Pakistani taxi driver Qaiser Khan, 29, said he picked up the pair in May at about 11pm after their all-day boozing session.

Mr Khan said he looked in his rear view mirror during the journey and noticed Blake had taken her top off.

According to police records, she was straddling McRedmond and “moaning for two minutes and making the sounds of a woman having sex”.

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The driver stopped the cab when he spotted a police car, then asked an officer to “come and see what they are doing”.

Blake, from Dorking, Surrey, who yesterday wore a black dress to court with a light brown blazer and sunglasses, and McRedmond, from Tullamore, Co Offaly, denied the indecency and sex charges though they pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol which led to a fine of £512.

Their lawyer, Shaker al-Shammary, told the trial: “This is Dubai, not a mosque. Everyone drinks.”

Blake and McRedmond are the latest Westerners to be clobbered by decency laws in the United Arab Emirates.

In 2008 a British couple in Dubai were found guilty of engaging in drunken sexual activity out of wedlock and in public.

They were sentenced to three months in prison followed by deportation but their jail terms were overturned on appeal.

Another UK couple were sentenced to a month in jail in 2010 for kissing in a Dubai restaurant.

Islam forbids Muslims boozing but non-Muslims in the UAE can drink at most hotels.