Marcus Fakana, an 18-year-old from Tottenham in north London, was on a trip with his parents when he struck up a holiday romance with the girl, who was staying at the same hotel.

British citizen Marcus Fakana, 18, is facing a one-year prison sentence for his summer romance with a London teenager, 17, who he met while on holiday in the United Arab Emirates.

Marcus Fakana, an 18-year-old British teen, was sentenced to one year of jail time for having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old British girl in Dubai, according to the BBC.

Marcus Fakana, 18, was convicted of having sex with a 17-year-old while on holiday. He began a secretive romance with the girl – who is now 18 – in September while both were on holiday with ...

British teen Marcus Fakana has at last been freed from a Dubai prison following 12 months of "hell". Nineteen-year-old Marcus, from Tottenham, north London, had been staying with family in the ...

British teen Marcus Fakana has at last been freed from a Dubai prison - and it's likely his 12 months of hell will have resulted in significant trauma.

Marcus Fakana, an 18-year-old from Tottenham in north London, was on a trip with his parents when he struck up a holiday romance with the girl, who was staying at the same hotel. Upon finding out ...

(CNN) — Holiday romances are the stuff of rom-coms and chick-lit — but not for 18-year-old Marcus Fakana, who is facing a one-year prison sentence for his summer fling.