Dubai ruler abused ex-wife to ‘exorbitant degree’, UK court rules


Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein (centre) and her lawyer, Baroness Fiona Shackleton, leave the Royal Courts of Justice in London on February 28, 2020. A British judge ruled today that the ruler of Dubai abused his ex-wife, Princess Haya, on an extraordinary scale. – EPA pic, March 24, 2022.

THE ruler of Dubai abused his ex-wife on an extraordinary scale, a UK judge ruled today, ending a lengthy legal battle between the couple over their two children.

The abuse by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, 72, of Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, 47, was “conducted on a scale which is entirely outside the ordinary circumstances of cases heard in the family court in this jurisdiction”, judge Andrew McFarlane said.


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