London (AP)-a British Court sentenced a Saudi Prince to at least 20 years in prison Wednesday for beating and strangling one of his servants in a swank British hotel in a matter of days of lurid testimony about their abusive relationship characterized.
Justice David Bean condemned Prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al Saud to life imprisonment without possibility of parole for 20 years for the brutal attack at the landmark Hotel in London on 15 February. The sensational case featured CCTV images of the shaved-headed Prince throwing a punch at his aide in a hotel elevator — the set piece in a prosecution in the event that said the King's son suave playboy battered his beloved in a rage after years of abuse.
"No one in this country is above the law," said Justice Bean. "It would be wrong for me to want stricter or more you demand from your membership of the Saudi royal family."
The jury was only 95 minutes before returning pronounced deliberated.The Prince was convicted of the murder of both a second count of grievous bodily harm with intent in relation to the attack in the elevator.
Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw described a flamboyant lifestyle with a dashing Prince who lived the luxury life — dine in fine restaurants and erotic massages received an educated him compared to Hollywood actor Omar Sharif.
A Saudi Prince was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a British court on Wednesday, 20 October 2010, for the assault and the murder of Bandar Abdulaziz, his servant.(AP Photo/metropolitan police, HO)Of the Prince lawyers tried before the test to stop with proof of his homosexuality from is made available to the public.
"Beneath the surface that this was a very violent relationship that the defendant to sadistic reasons, for his own personal gratification," said Mr. Laidlaw.He described the attack leads to the aide death as "a really terrible, a really brutal attack.
Saud originally told police that he and Bandar Abdulaziz had been swigging champagne in the early hours of the morning, and that when he woke up he not Mr Abdulaziz excite may 00.
Jurors rejected a claim by his defense lawyer, John Kelsey-Fry, that the Prince was guilty of manslaughter only. defense attorneys had to protect the Prince sexuality during the application process of bail, but failed.
Since the arrest of the Prince, Saudi Arabia the officials have said nothing about the matter, and Saudi newspapers and TV are not even mentioned it, a sign of how painful the process and the condemnation of the Royal family.
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