In hiding in an £85m townhouse

[englishpremier]

This is an about the court case between Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum's and his wife Princess Haya Bint al-Hussein.

This month she was reported to be in hiding in London in fear for her life.

Princess Haya initially fled to Germany to try and seek asylum there, but it emerged this month that she was living in central London - specifically, in an £85m ($107m) town house in Kensington Palace Gardens.

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-49162276

She fled the UAE, initially going to Germany, and is now in London apparently 'in hiding'. How the hell is someone in hiding in an £85m townhouse. No-one would ever think to look for her there huh? Now if she was in a council estate in Redcar, then perhaps she wouldn't have been found.

 

[Efour]

He might have 50 of these type of houses across the globe.
It's not that a sensational story unfortunately.
She'll probably get asylum now or execution.
Whichever has less paperwork.

 

[MartinPrince]

You'd think he'd have his hands full with his other 6 wives and 21 children.

 

[Nasher]

Yea cant he just get a new one?

 

[wolfie138]

" Haya Bint"
sounds like an average greeting in Newcastle.

 

[wolfie138]

will publishing a news article about it not compromise the hiding effectiveness?

 

[englishpremier]

Could be an interesting test for the new Home/Foreign secretary if the Sheik demands she comes back to UAE. Would the UK risk upsetting one of their allies?

 

[VincentHanna]

Must be one hell of a townhouse.

 

[MartinPrince]

Must be one hell of a townhouse.

Agreed, I know London property prices can be what many consider silly with broom cupboards going for 6 figures but £85million must be a street sized apartment.

 

[jsmoke]

Hidden tunnels under the house.

 

[aardvark]

its probably a big house - did they check under the stairs?

 

[Diddums]

She got her norks out yet?

 

[dowie]

To be fair the husband does have previous for kidnapping his relatives - in particular two daughters, one was "disappeared" from London and the other almost got away but was picked up on a yacht in international waters by UAE and Indian SF/Navy.

Strangely enough when some people make arguments about women rights in Islam and how it is truly a feminist religion etc.. they have to ignore the behaviour of the people running the Islamic countries in that part of the world and the real life treatment of women there.

 

[Moothead2]

Yea cant he just get a new one?

He can, but this one brought shame to his name so she must be punished accordingly.

 

[StriderX]

They'll get her eventually, one does not simply escape the Arabian peninsula, and we'll cry for a bit about how mean they are, but sell them billions in child killing bombs to make up for the mean comments we made.

 

[wolfie138]

Hidden tunnels under the house.

so that's where the area 51 stuff went...

 

[Amnesia]

After she fled, Sheikh Mohammed wrote an angry poem accusing an unnamed woman of betrayal and treachery, and posted it on his Instagram page.

What happened to throwing them in the dungeon to be raped until death.

 

[dowie]

After she fled, Sheikh Mohammed wrote an angry poem accusing an unnamed woman of betrayal and treachery, and posted it on his Instagram page.

What happened to throwing them in the dungeon to be raped until death.

Well you've gotta catch them to do that, she's escaped.

 

[Amnesia]

In July 2000, another of Sheikh Mohammed's daughters - Sheikha Shamsa Al Maktoum, who was 19 at the time - briefly escaped from the family's Surrey home.

Her method of escaping - by driving their Land Rover to the edge of the estate, abandoning the car and slipping through a fence on foot - made headlines at the time. She was reportedly found in Cambridge a year later and returned to Dubai

Are we helping him keep captives?

 

[dowie]

Are we helping him keep captives?

Nope, the UK didn't hand her over to him or anything, it was seemingly a straight up kidnapping/disappearance. There was a police investigation after that incident.