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| Saudi sadist jailed for torturing teenager | |
| 2003-09-06 | |
| 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."
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #10 On initially reading this, I thought it was happening somewhere in the ME. But this piece of shit is in *my* country. Fucker. I'm really hoping that SH (aka Steve) is on the right track and that someone makes his day - repeatedly. |
| Posted by: Tony 2003-9-6 8:20:37 PM |
| #9 I hope the guiy is physically small and gets adopted then sold to others for a carton of smokes. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-9-6 7:52:07 PM |
| #8 Five years might be enough. Let's find a vacant hole in the Tower of London (of Katheryn of Aragon and Mary, Queen of Scots fame), preferably below ground, where the ooze from the Thames seeps in when it gets cold. Chain him with one arm on the wall, and one to the floor. Feed him by throwing rotten potatoes at his head. He can drink while we sluice him off now and then. THOSE five years would be enough. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-9-6 7:49:50 PM |
| #7 "Only 5 years!?!?" Why are you so suprised? I'm sure the Saudi government had something to do with the verdict. |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-9-6 5:05:05 PM |
| #6 Quote of the day: "You threatened to slaughter her like a sheep...That was the main reason that she eventually tried to escape." All the other things were so much fun, she wouldn't have wanted to leave at all! |
| Posted by: Rafael 2003-9-6 4:25:25 PM |
| #5 Only 5 years!?!? |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2003-9-6 2:18:08 PM |
| #4 An obvious case of "honor torture". Says here in the Koran you're free to go, Sammy. Peace be upon you. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-9-6 1:45:18 PM |
| #3 Is it possible that he was conduting some kind of research for his thesis? Maybe this was a Saudi "art piece." Is this the same school that Uday graduated from? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-9-6 12:57:38 PM |
| #2 Shadukhi was convicted of sample [sic] counts of false imprisonment, making threats to kill and causing actual bodily harm. ... He was found not guilty of rape and causing grievous bodily harm with intent. He was formally cleared of unlawful wounding and a second charge of actual bodily harm after the jury failed to return a verdict." I guess it wasn't his fault that she fell down that 60' embankment and almost killed herself during her escape, right? I mean, if she'd stayed those things would never have happened, so they're her own fault! What the #$%^& is going on in the UK these days? |
| Posted by: John Anderson 2003-9-6 12:31:15 PM |
| #1 While it's true that any culture produces nutjobs like Sammy, what is more damning is that Saudi Embassy staff tried to hush the whole thing up : During the trial it was alleged that Saudi embassy officials tried to bribe the girl into dropping the charges against Shadukhi, whose father is a retired Saudi official. from Saudi student tortured girl in flat {BBC} Tut, tut... |
| Posted by: Lux 2003-9-6 11:18:03 AM |