Arab royal convicted of killing servant
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October 20, 2010, Wednesday
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A SAUDI prince was convicted yesterday of murdering one of his servants in a frenzied attack in a British hotel.
A jury in London's Old Bailey criminal court found Prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al-Saud guilty of murdering Bandar Abdullah Abdulaziz at London's Landmark Hotel on February 15.
The 34-year-old prince, whose grandfather is a brother of the Saudi king, faces a possible life term in prison when he is sentenced today.
Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw said the prince had abused his aide in the past, showing jurors video shot in the Landmark's elevator which appears to show the shaven-headed prince, dressed in white, throwing his 32-year-old servant around and battering him. Photographs of Abdulaziz stored on a mobile phone "plainly proved" that there was a "sexual element" to the abuse, Laidlaw said.
Al-Saud originally told police that he and Abdulaziz had been drinking into the early hours of the morning, and that when he awoke at 3pm he could not rouse Abdulaziz.
Jurors rejected a claim by his defense lawyer John Kelsey-Fry that the prince was guilty only of manslaughter.
A jury in London's Old Bailey criminal court found Prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al-Saud guilty of murdering Bandar Abdullah Abdulaziz at London's Landmark Hotel on February 15.
The 34-year-old prince, whose grandfather is a brother of the Saudi king, faces a possible life term in prison when he is sentenced today.
Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw said the prince had abused his aide in the past, showing jurors video shot in the Landmark's elevator which appears to show the shaven-headed prince, dressed in white, throwing his 32-year-old servant around and battering him. Photographs of Abdulaziz stored on a mobile phone "plainly proved" that there was a "sexual element" to the abuse, Laidlaw said.
Al-Saud originally told police that he and Abdulaziz had been drinking into the early hours of the morning, and that when he awoke at 3pm he could not rouse Abdulaziz.
Jurors rejected a claim by his defense lawyer John Kelsey-Fry that the prince was guilty only of manslaughter.
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