Saudi Arabian prince and murderer (born 1977)
Saud bin Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al Saud (Arabic: سعود بن عبد العزيز بن ناصر بن عبد العزيز آل سعود, born 1977) is a princely member of the Saudi royal family and a convicted murderer. Purported to be a closeted homosexual, he is a grandson of King Saud.[1]
Murder and imprisonment
In February 2010, he was found guilty at the Old Bailey of murdering his servant from Sudan, Bandar Abdulaziz in their suite at the Landmark Hotel in London.[2]
During the trial, it was purported that the prince had received a sexual massage from the male escort Mr. Louis Szikora for the rented amount of £200 per hour three days before the murder, and that he and Abdulaziz had been engaged in a homosexual relationship. [3][4][5]
Accordingly, it was also alleged that the murder was a culmination of an extremely abusive "Master—Slave" relationship. The prince maintained that he and his victim were "friends and equals", and denied an alleged homosexual relationship between the two.
However, prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw stated that the evidence found - including naked photographs stored on a cellular phone and traces of semen on the victim's underwear - "establishes quite conclusively that (Al Saud) was either gay or had homosexual inclinations.[6] Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw also said the prince had abused his aide in the past, showing jurors a video shot in the Landmark's elevator which appears to show the shaven-headed prince, dressed in white, throwing his 32—year-old servant around and battering him. [7]
On 20 October 2010, Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud was sentenced to life imprisonment and was ordered to serve a minimum of 20 years for strangling and beating Bandar Abdulaziz to death. In March 2013, he was allowed to return to Saudi Arabia to serve the remainder of his term in a Saudi prison.
According to the diplomatic agreement signed between the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia, he must serve at least twenty years (2030) before he can be released.[8][9][10]
Family
Saud's maternal grandfather was Saud of Saudi Arabia, who was the brother of King Abdullah who was the king at the time when Saud was convicted and sentenced by a court in the UK. Both of Saud's parents belong to the Saudi royal family. They are first cousins to each other, being the children of two half-brothers, both of whom were the sons of King Abdulaziz, the founder of the modern Saudi state. Saud's father is Abdulaziz bin Nasser, the son of Nasser bin Abdulaziz, himself the son of King Abdulaziz. Saud's mother, Fayza, is the daughter of Saud of Saudi Arabia, himself a son of King Abdulaziz.
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