Mubarak Hamad, a wealthy Arab prince, was charged with being drunk on
a plane after he was thrown off a passenger flight by police officers
back in July.
Hamad, a 29-year-old Bahraini national, caused quite a scene when he
boarded a Boeing 777 British Airways flight on July 22. Hamad apparently
had a bit too much to drink and started shouting and complaining about
the service on flight BA125 from Heathrow airport via Bahrain to Doha,
Qatar, according to the Daily Mail.
An Arab prince was
marched off a passenger jet at Heathrow by police officers armed with
Taser guns after he drunkenly stormed the cockpit to complain about the
poor service.
Mubarak Hamad, 29, a
Bahraini billionaire prince who lives in London, has been charged with
being drunk on an aircraft and is due to appear in court later this
month.
Shortly after boarding the British Airways Boeing 777 to
Doha in Qatar via Bahrain, it is understood that the prince began
shouting and complaining about the service.
Members of the crew
were allegedly forced to call the police after he made his way into the
cockpit and refused to go back to his seat.
Mr Hamad was then
dragged off the plane by officers armed with stun guns and taken to a
police station where his DNA, mugshot and fingerprints were taken.
He
was bailed, but was told he was being formally charged when he answered
his bail on Wednesday. He is due to appear before magistrates in London
later this month.
Mr Hamad, who is believed to be a close
relation of Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, lives in Eaton
Square, Belgravia. Past and present residents of the square include Sir
Sean Connery, Sir Roger Moore and José Mourinho, the former Chelsea
football manager.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “Mubarak Hamad,
29, of Eaton Square, Belgravia, was charged on October 17 with being
drunk on an aircraft and has been bailed to appear at Uxbridge
magistrates’ court.”
Human rights campaigners have in the past
criticised King Hamad, whose regime has been accused of violently
repressing pro-democracy activists.
This is not the first time
that members of the Middle East’s elite have found themselves on the
wrong side of the law in Britain.
Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al
Saud, a Saudi prince, was jailed for life in 2010 for beating and
strangling his servant at a five-star hotel in London.
When arrested, he at first wrongly believed he had diplomatic immunity.
The
son of the billionaire Emir of Ajman, part of the United Arab Emirates,
had his £200,000 Ferrari FF seized by police and displayed outside
Scotland Yard because it was uninsured.
Sheikh Rashid Bin Humaid
Al Nuaimi boasted later that officers handed back the keys as soon as
they discovered who he was, writing on Facebook: “Arab money talks.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk
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