I read that the murderer, who will serve a minimum twenty year term, apparently, may apply for asylum in the UK after his sentence is served, since homosexuality attracts the death penalty in his native Saudi Arabia. (as does murder, incidentally, but perhaps murdering your servant doesn’t count if you are a member of the Saudi Ruling family?)
Apart for the question of why a life term does not mean life imprisonment in the UK, what on earth is this country doing providing asylum to foreigners who commit offences in this country which would result in their receiving the death penalty if returned to their own country? Is this more Labour Luvvie stuff?
As a nephew of the Saudi Ruler is there a concern that he may be set free, if shipped back immediately rather than remaining a burden on UK taxpayers for the next twenty years? Or is the concern that he would be provided with an appointment to present himself in Chop Square on the first available Friday following his return?
Boadicea's Chariot 
CWJ, I agree, but, sadly, it is not only Labour that is ‘luvvy’.
CWJ, I agree too, but why don’t we save ourselves some money and hang the bugger ourselves, on behalf of the Saudis? (For murder, of course, not homosexuality.)
To be honest, I wouldn’t send him back!
I’ve no problem with our guys shooting him while he attempts to escape capture or someone cqpping him while performing a citizens arrest but once he’s in the hands of the state justice must take it’s course.
Our job is to try and get the ba**tards before the state houses them.
Which, in Saudi, involves a one-way trip to chop-chop square, innit?
As it does here Bravo (and good riddance)
Sadly this business of granting asylum to various ne’er-do-wells, and not sending them back to their countries of origin, because there is a possibility that they may be imprisoned indefinitely,tortured or executed, means we are in the process of accumulating ever larger numbers of assorted riff-raff, ranging from the looniest of Islamic fundamentalist preachers, to out-and-out terrorists, wanted by their own States. A friend’s fulltime job these days is attempting to obtain the reassurances necessary from some of these foreign governments and rulers that whoever it is that we want to shove on a plane back to Jordan/Egypt/Syria/Iraq/Iran/Pakistan won’t be promptly separated from his head on arrival.
Despite receiving such assurances, it seems our previous Home Secretary/ courts are most reluctant to make the decision to deport. Meanwhile we have become a harbour of refuge for the cesspool of fundamentalists who form a major portion of this brigade. I am hoping Teresa May may have developed more backbone to deal with this than her predecessor…