US sailor thwarts Dubai bus driver rapist after putting him in strangehold with her thighs and then beating him into submission Sailor, 28, was attacked as she was on 24-hour shore leave in Dubai Was on a bus when it took a different route and stopped Driver attempted to rape her at knife point when she refused to kiss him She knocked the knife from his hand and broke it in two, bit him in the hand, forced him to the ground and locked him between her thighs An off-duty US navy sailor wrestled a bus driver to the ground and beat him into submission after he attempted to rape her at knife point, a court heard yesterday. Prosecutors said that she knocked the knife from his hand, broke it in two, bit him in the hand, forced him to the ground and locked him between her thighs. The woman, 28, was on 24-hour shore leave in Dubai and was attacked as she returned to the port where she was based after a day shopping. The off-duty navy sailor was attacked at knife point as she returned to the port in Dubai (STOCK IMAGE) She had been attempting to hail a taxi after visiting shopping centre, Mall of the Emirates and a supermarket when a bus pulled up next to her After climbing aboard she became suspicious of the drivers route. She said: "I noticed he did not take the main road and when I asked him he told me not to worry." He then drove for a further 10 minutes before stopping in an area where other buses were parked and attempting to kiss her. When she refused him he pulled the knife and threatened to rape her but she was able to subdue him. Following the attack, which occurred on January 19 of this year, she left the bus and reported it to her commander at Port Khalid. She had spent a day shopping at the massive shopping centre Mall of the Emirates in Dubai The court heard that the woman quickly returned to Port Khalid to report the incident to her commander The driver, named as K S, from Pakistan, was arrested the next day at his home and the attending police officer said that he was intoxicated at the time. The court ordered that the 21-year-old be examined to establish his age after he did not produce a birth certificate. He has been charged with attempted rape, threatening to kill, assault and consuming alcohol illegally. Having confessed to the alcohol charge, the driver claims to have been too drunk to remember what happened. Traces of the woman's hair and blood were found on his bus. The case was adjourned to May 1.