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Saudi sadist jailed for torturing teenager
The son of a former Saudi government official was today jailed for five years for imprisoning and torturing a pregnant teenager. Sammy Shadukhi kept the terrified 17-year-old girl captive for a month in his luxury riverside apartment overlooking the River Thames in Rotherhithe, South London. Shadukhi, 22, whose unnamed father was said to have retired recently from Saudi Arabia's Ministry of the Interior, whipped his captive regularly and subjected her to a string of punishments, the court heard. The pregnant girl escaped after Shadukhi, an English language student, threatened to "slaughter her like a sheep". But she broke her back, leg and ankle in the bid and lay unconscious on the shore for two hours. The girl came to and screamed for help after falling 60ft onto the shore of the River Thames. Neighbours heard her cries and she was airlifted to hospital. The court heard that she would have drowned if the tide had been high. Judge Jonathan van der Werff, sentencing Shadukhi at the Inner London Crown Court, said: "You kept her under your control at all times and you subjected her to various sorts of torture ... tying her up with wire and Sellotape and keeping her like that for long periods. You made threats to kill ... holding a knife to her throat and causing an injury that was still visible a month later." The judge said that the girl was unable to call for help because Shadukhi disconnected the phone, and she became convinced that she would die if she did not flee his clutches. "You threatened to slaughter her like a sheep. She believed you. That was the main reason that she eventually tried to escape. These were deeply unpleasant crimes for which you have shown no remorse." The teenager spent weeks recovering from her ordeal and terminated her pregnancy at five months because she feared her fall may have deformed her unborn child. She told the two-week trial that her ordeal began when Shadukhi invited her into his waterfront apartment in January last year. The student refused to let her leave and in over the next month would repeatedly torture her. She said he bound her and attempted to drown her in the bath. Shadukhi also forced the teenager's head into a bucket of hot water, telling her: "This is the last day of your life. You don't deserve to live. I have got to get rid of you."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-09-06 |
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