A Saudi-Arabian sheik gets away with orchestrating a murder in Turkey, now we learn that a Dubai sheik can get away with kidnapping in the UK.
Sheikha Shamsa fled the family's UK estate in Surrey in 2000 but was later abducted in Cambridgeshire by agents of the sheikh and forcibly returned to Dubai where she remains in captivity.
Sheikha Latifa made two unsuccessful attempts to flee her father's family, in 2002 and 2018. After the first she was imprisoned by her father in Dubai for over three years. In the second attempt she was abducted at sea off the Indian coast and forcibly returned to Dubai, where she remains under house arrest.
Sheikha Shamsa fled the family's UK estate in Surrey in 2000 but was later abducted in Cambridgeshire by agents of the sheikh and forcibly returned to Dubai where she remains in captivity.
Sheikha Latifa made two unsuccessful attempts to flee her father's family, in 2002 and 2018. After the first she was imprisoned by her father in Dubai for over three years. In the second attempt she was abducted at sea off the Indian coast and forcibly returned to Dubai, where she remains under house arrest.
The ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, a close Gulf ally and personal friend of the Queen, broke UK and international law.
The police investigating the abduction of Princess Shamsa from Cambridge in 2000, when she was 19, was prevented from travelling to Dubai to pursue criminal inquiries, denied permission to fly out to the Gulf to interview “potential witnesses” after making a formal request to the Crown Prosecution Service. The Foreign Office refused to hand over its files on the case to the court. The Foreign Office appears to have blocked the police investigation.
Sheikh Mohammed had tried, unsuccessfully, to keep the judgement out of the public domain but his appeal was rejected after the case was ruled to be in the public interest. The ruler of Dubai was found to have "not been open and honest with the court". The Sheikh had used his media contacts to generate a series of negative articles about Princess Haya, many of which were "wholly inaccurate". Princess Haya of Jordan, 45, a daughter of the late King Hussain and a former Olympic equestrian, married Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, 70, in 2004, becoming the sixth and youngest of his wives. A campaign of intimidation by Sheikh Mohammed's agents began and the court heard that a gun was twice placed on her pillow with the safety catch off. A helicopter landed outside her house with a threat to remove her to a remote desert prison. Princess Haya fled to Britain, taking her two children with her.
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