By IRNA,
London : A Saudi prince Wednesday was jailed for life in the UK with a minimum of serving 20 years after being convicted of killing his servant at a five-star London hotel.
Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud, a 35-year old grandson of the Saudi king, was found guilty at London’s Old Bailey central criminal court on Tuesday of killing Bandar Abdulaziz in February.
The court had heard that the murder of 32-year old Abdulaziz was the final act in a ‘deeply abusive’ master-servant relationship in which the prince carried out frequent attacks on his aide ‘for his own personal gratification.’
The prince had denied killing his servant until shortly before the trial, when he finally admitted to causing the death. The jury rejected a claim by his barrister, John Kelsey-Fry QC, that Saud was guilty only of manslaughter.