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I'm all agog at the reports of the Saudi Prince who killed his 'valet' aren't you?
Prince Saud Bin Abdulaziz Bin Nasir Al Saud (34) allegedly battered and strangled his 'aide' Bandar Abdulaziz (32) during a sexually motivated attack in room 312 they shared in the Landmark Hotel, Marylebone, Central London.
Prince Saud is the grandson of the Saudi Arabia's billionaire King. Mr Bandar is an orphan.
The prince and his valet had been staying together at the hotel since 20 January as part of an "extended holiday". Mr Bandra's body was found with blood on the prince's bed.
I've been clicking and scrolling and reading avidly every tantalising detail of this scandal. This story is certainly more interesting than the movie Reign of the Assasins, which I watched with R yesterday afternoon. We both regretted it. Datin Michelle Yeoh has been trying to re-make Crouching Tiger for two decades, and failing. It's time for her to nahg up those kungfu shoes, methinks.
Apparently Prince Saud and Mr Bandar hung up their clothes in colour-coded order at the hotel. In court, Pablo Silva (31, 6ft 3 in) a Brazilian escort who allegedly performed a sex act upon Prince Saud at the hotel, has emerged to give evidence. Mr Silva, works part time as a male prostitute to fund his maths doctorate and is employed by agents including Escort Guys and Men in The City. Mr Silva said he was called to the Landmark for his services in the early hours of the morning at the beginning of February this year.
Mr Silva said he normally stayed for an hour with his clients, but that the time was cut short.
“I asked him whether he wanted a massage and I think I asked him to remove something which he had on so that I should be able to do the massage. I took off my shirt and my trousers to cause a little more provocation to my client. I did the massage and in a short while I was free to leave.”
Mr Silva was paid in crisp £50 notes, by the man he described as "short, corpulent and not English or European". He could not positively identify the defendant. However, Mr Silva’s telephone number was found written on a piece of paper in the Prince Saud's room.
Mr Bandar was bitten on his cheeks; His blood was discovered on Prince Saud's the underpants. Compromising photos of him partially naked were found on Prince Saud's phone. On the night before he died, the Prince and his valet had ordered champagne and cocktails to the room. They went to bed in the early hours.
Initially, Prince Saud told the police that Bandar died from injuries sustained in a street robbery three weeks earlier. But hotel CCTV showed a "nasty assault" by the prince on Mr Bandar in a lift in previous weeks. In the footage, the servant cowered as he is punched and kicked. A post mortem revealed that Mr Bandar died after "a series of heavy punches or blows to his head"; the abuse of Mr Bandar was not confined to physical beatings. There is clear evidence, over and above the bite marks, that there was a sexual element.
However, Prince Saud denies being gay, although his computer had been used to surf gay massage and escort sites, and the Spartacus International Gay Guide was found in his room. The prince had also ordered at least two gay escorts to his hotel room. The "not gay" Prince Saud