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Gay News: A gay Saudi prince and grandson of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has been convicted of killing his manservant.
By: Nigel Robinson
Jury took less then 2 hours to decide
Jury took less then 2 hours to decide
Gay Saudi prince murdered his servant
Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud, 34, was found guilty at the Old Bailey of beating and strangling his servant Bandar Abdulaziz in their five-star hotel suite in London on 15 February this year
The Old Bailey had been told that the attack had had a “sexual element” and was the culmination of a lengthy abusive relationship in which the Prince viciously beat his manservant for sexual gratification.
Throughout the proceedings, the Prince denied that he was gay or that he and Bandar Abdulaziz were in a sexual relationship, although they shared a room at the five-star Landmark hotel in London, and were perceived to be a couple by gay members of staff.
However, several male escorts have testified that they had been paid to visit the Prince in his hotel where they were paid to perform sexual favours for him.
The Court heard that the fatal attack began after the two men had returned from a Valentine’s Day night out. The Prince bit Bandar Abdulaziz on the cheeks and then beat this servant to death in a frenzied attack fuelled on champagne and cocktails.
When the body was discovered, the Prince pleaded guilty to manslaughter rather than murder and unsuccessfully tried to apply for diplomatic immunity.
It took the jury at the Old Bailey one hour and forty-five minutes to find the Prince guilty of murder and of a further charge of causing grievous bodily harm with intent in an earlier incident in one of the hotel’s lifts, which had been filmed on CCTV.
The Prince will be sentenced tomorrow and faces a lengthy sentence.
If he were to return to his own country then he could face execution – not for the murder, but because being gay is illegal in Saudi Arabia.
