A British woman has managed to escape her three-month jail sentence in Dubai by flying back to the UK, despite Dubai authorities imposing a no-fly ban.

She was given the sentence in her absence in a court hearing on Monday, after fleeing the country.

Asa Hutchinson, aged 22, was charged with assault and theft following an alleged drunken altercation with a Swedish businessman in 2016.

According to the MailOnline, she has managed to escape by obtaining a new British passport andboarding a plane back to London.

“Asa left via the airport [in Dubai] and was fortunate not to have alerted the system [over the 'no-fly' court order],” a source close to Ms Hutchinson told MailOnline. “She was able to do this because she had replaced her passport. This is not usually possible.”

Ms Hutchinson, who was an account manager for a global transportation company in the UAE, was arrested following an incident in Dubai's Al Fattan Currency House, where she was accused of being involved in an altercation with a Swedish businessman.

She and three friends were implicated when a drunken row erupted after the group took photos of a sleeping Swedish man.

One of the young group woke up the sleeping man by hitting him in the face,before another member stole his glasses and the fight escalated.