Saudi Prince on trial for "sexual" killing of servant

[Cain]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-11477062

A Saudi prince murdered his servant in an attack which had a "sexual element", the Old Bailey has heard.

Bandar Abdulaziz, 32, was found beaten and strangled in the Landmark Hotel, Marylebone, central London, on 15 February.

The court was told Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud had carried out several assaults on the victim before he died.

Mr al Saud, 34, admits manslaughter but denies murder and one count of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

The jury has been asked to decide whether he is guilty of manslaughter or murder.

When the body was found the prince claimed his aide had been attacked and robbed three weeks before his death.

But the jury was told Mr al Saud carried out the killing - and injuries including bite marks to Mr Abdulaziz's face showed the "ferocity of the attack to which he had been subjected".
'Friends and equals'

The prince has claimed he was "friends and equals" with his servant and denied being gay.

Jonathan Laidlaw QC, prosecuting, said: "The evidence establishes quite conclusively that he is either gay or that he has homosexual tendencies.

"It is clear that his abuse of Bandar was not confined simply to physical beatings.

"There is clear evidence, over and above the bite marks, that there was also a sexual element to his mistreatment of the victim."

The court heard that the prince and his aide had been staying together at the hotel since 20 January as part of an extended holiday.

Mr Abdulaziz's body was found with blood on the pillow and the defendant appeared "shocked and upset", the court heard.

Mr al Saud told police officers they had been drinking in the hotel bar until the early hours of the morning before returning to the room and that when he woke at about 1500 GMT he could not rouse the victim.

The prince had tried to clean up some of the blood and wash some of Mr Abdulaziz's bloodstained clothing, Mr Laidlaw said.
'Sexual connotation'

Bloodstains found in the room were "consistent with the victim having been the subject of a series of separate assaults before he was killed", the jury heard.

Asked by police about the injuries suffered by the victim, Mr al Saud said he had been robbed three weeks earlier on Edgware Road, in central London.

But CCTV footage showed the prince attacking his servant in the lift of the hotel on two separate occasions in previous weeks and kicking him outside a restaurant on the night of his death.

The post-mortem examination showed Mr Abdulaziz had suffered heavy blows to his head and face, leaving his left eye closed and swollen, his lips split and his teeth chipped and broken.

There were also injuries to his neck, ears and internal organs, bleeding to the brain and a rib fracture.

"There were bite marks to his cheeks, which had 'an obvious sexual connotation," Mr Laidlaw said.

The case continues.

This wouldn't be the first time a Saudi Prince has been revealed to be a murderous sadist, but al-Saud...well, that name mean's he's part of the charmed circle in the Saudi Arabia, the actual Royal Family itself.  A large Royal Family, no doubt, with 600 or so members....but's he's not just some oil-rich magnate who gives himself an imaginary title, like most "princes". 

That aside, try finding any other information on the Prince.  I have, and I've come up with nothing.  Nada.  Zip.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

What a vile, sadistic bastard.

[Adios]

What Nigel said.

[Doktor Howl]

What a vile, sadistic bastard.

What a dead vile, sadistic bastard.

[Cain]

This reminds me of the story a few months back about the Filipino servant who returned home from working in Saudi Arabia with a load of metal pins and needles that had been stuck in her body by her former employer, just because he felt like it.

[Doktor Howl]

This reminds me of the story a few months back about the Filipino servant who returned home from working in Saudi Arabia with a load of metal pins and needles that had been stuck in her body by her former employer, just because he felt like it.

That's different.  The fact that the prosecution is being allowed to make this a sex thing means he's a dead motherfucker.

[Cramulus]

GOD DAMN IT
^{I need to get me some servants}

[BabylonHoruv]

Saudi princes into snuff, goodness, what is the world coming to.

[Cain]

This reminds me of the story a few months back about the Filipino servant who returned home from working in Saudi Arabia with a load of metal pins and needles that had been stuck in her body by her former employer, just because he felt like it.

That's different.  The fact that the prosecution is being allowed to make this a sex thing means he's a dead motherfucker.

I'm honestly surprised he didn't have diplomatic immunity in the first place.  Of course, if the Saudis knew from the start the particulars of this case (and they probably had a good idea; Saudi intelligence is terrible, tradecraft wise, but drop enough money and anyone talks) they likely rescinded it to allow the prosecution to go ahead.  They're all playboys in private, in my limited experience, but appearances must be kept up.  Goodness knows enough militants want to kill the entire House of Saud already for being insufficiently committed to Islam, without them appearing to be protecting homosexuals into the deal.

[Cain]

Said Prince is now going to seek asylum in the UK after his prison term is served.

Given we extradited homosexuals back to Iran, where they also face the death penalty, I don't rate his chances too highly.  Especially since we want to be warm this winter, and for the Saudis to continue to buy our weapons systems and hire our mecenary companies.

[The Johnny]

I dont understand what the correlation between bites to the cheeks and homosexuality is and why even it was brought out.

[slothrop23]

i think its because they were sharing a room together.  very suspicous i'd say given that homosexuality is punished by death.  add to that years of mental abuse.  who would stay around for that.  sounds like a domestic abuse situation.

[Jasper]

GOD DAMN IT
^{I need to get me some servants}

I know, right?  It would make GASMS a breeze.

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I dont understand what the correlation between bites to the cheeks and homosexuality is and why even it was brought out.

Did they say which cheeks?

[Cain]

I dont understand what the correlation between bites to the cheeks and homosexuality is and why even it was brought out.

Certain bite marks during violent episodes can have sexual connotations.  I presume, though this is speculation, that cheeks are one of these areas, replacing the near chaste "peck on the cheek" style of a kiss with a far more sadistic and damaging act.

I also suspect there were other acts performed on the servant which, when considered alongside the cheek-biting, lend itself to the theory that the Prince is homosexual or at the very least bisexual.