Family of bodyguard facing year in Dubai prison appeal for support

Miami VIP bodyguard Cornell Whitfield has been sentenced to 1 year in Dubai’s notorious jail after putting himself in the line of fire when acting as security for R&B singer Trey Songz in Dubai.

His lawyer is filing an appeal to the charge of “assault” after he slapped a Jordanian man who was drunk and acting in a threatening and aggressive way in front of the FIVE Palm Jumeirah hotel. The man initially demanded US$60,000 to drop the criminal allegations, but Whitfield didn’t have the money and assumed the Dubai justice system would acquit him as he was acting in self defence and exercised restraint when protecting his client.