Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Saudi prince 'battered servant to death', court told


Grandson of Saudi king denies prosecution claims that he was having a sexual relationship with victim Bandar Abulaziz

The Guardian

"A Saudi prince strangled and battered his servant to death in a ferocious sexually motivated murder, a court heard today.

Saud bin Abdulaziz bin Nasir al Saud, a grandson of the billionaire king of Saudi Arabia, is accused of killing his male aide in a brutal attack in a luxury London hotel room earlier this year.

The bloodied body of the 32-year-old servant, Bandar Abdulaziz, referred to in court simply as Bandar, was found in a suite at the five-star Landmark Hotel on 15 February after his master raised the alarm, claiming Bandar was suffering the effects of an earlier street robbery.

But police soon realised all was not quite as it seemed, the Old Bailey heard. A post-mortem report revealed the dead man had bite marks to his face, his lips were split open and there was evidence of manual compression on his neck. Though there was no evidence of a recent sexual assault, semen – possibly belonging to the prince – was detected on the victim's underpants...."

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