Saudi Prince Didn't Have Gay Relationship With Alleged Victim

The lawyer of Saudi prince, who is accused of murder, says that his client didn't have a gay relationship with the victim. Saud Abdul Aziz Bin Nasser Al Saud, aged 34, confesses to manslaughter but rejects murder charges and a separate allegation of deliberately causing serious bodily harm in an alleged attack in one of the hotel lifts three weeks earlier.

The alleged victim, 32-year old Bandar Abdul Aziz, was found beaten and strangulated on 15th February in Landmark Hotel in Central London.

The Old Bailey has been told that Al Saud carried out repeated assaults against the victim before he was killed. The jury will decide whether to charge him for murder or manslaughter.

Dobomir Dimitrov, an employee at the Landmark Hotel, who went inside their room while they were staying there, said that he would call them "a gay couple" as they didn't act like heterosexual men. Speaking about Abdul Aziz, Dimitrov said that it was "impossible not to notice that he was homosexual".

However, Al Saud's lawyer John Kelsey-Fry QC argued during cross-examination, "It is not accepted that this was in fact a gay couple - but I readily accept that you had the impression they were a gay couple".

When the corpse was found in the hotel room, the prince said that his companion was harassed and robbed a few weeks prior to his death.

The case still remains a mystery.