By ALEX MATTHEWS
Saad Alfoudari, 31, was part of a gang who chased down Abdulaziz Al Saud following a night at Cirque Le Soir, in Soho, central London (pictured, Mr Alfoudari wearing a white shirt, being held back by the group)
A millionaire’s son savagely attacked a Saudi Prince and kicked out two of this teeth following a row at an upmarket nightclub.
Saad Alfoudari, 31, was part of a gang who chased down Abdulaziz Al Saud following a night at Cirque Le Soir, in Soho, central London.
Mr Alfoudari and eight of his friends had been asked to leave the club, popular with A-listers including Cara Delevigne and Rihanna, due to rowdy behaviour.
It was outside the venue that they clashed with Prince Al Saud, nephew of King Salman of Saudi Arabia, Southwark Crown Court heard.
Their aggression ‘centred mainly upon Prince Al Saud’ with another attacker, Souan Alenezi, booting him from behind causing him to drop to the floor.
Further kicks to the prince’s face by the pair displaced two or three of his teeth while he also suffered severe bruising to both lips, bruising to one of his eyes and pain around his nose.
Prosecuting, Alex Agbamu said: ‘The defendant was firstly involved in a confrontation with Prince Al Saud outside the doors of the Le Cirque Soir.
‘He was Prince Al Saud’s lead pursuer as he hastened to his car and he was involved in the attack on Prince Al Saud when the latter lay upon the ground.’
Police were called and officers soon spotted Alfoudari and Alenezi jogging away from the scene before trying and swap clothes with three other men close to a waiting taxi.
Alfoudari, whose shirt was adorned with bloodspots, told police they had been the victims of an attack but he was arrested after CCTV footage was reviewed.
He initially claimed to have no recollection of the night, in July 2013, when questioned the following day but admitted affray.
Mr Agbamu told the court the case had taken so long to come to court after the suspects ‘fled the jurisdiction in breach of police bail, this defendant included’.
But he was arrested at Heathrow Airport last September on his way into the country.
Alfoudari had previously been picked out by the Prince as ‘the one who attacked me’ during an identity parade held in March 2014.
William Clegg, QC, defending, said Alfoudari was a ‘family man’, married with two children and boasting a £50,000 per year tax-free job working for the Prime Minister of Kuwait.
He said the CCTV footage at no time showed his client striking the Prince ‘at all’ while the blood on Alfoudari’s shirt was his own, stemming from a cut sustained earlier inside the club.
After privately showing the judge a statement to avoid causing ‘any degree of embarrassment to the family of the victim’, he said: ‘There is slightly more to this than meets the eye.’
The court heard Alfoudari languished for six months on police bail before heading back to Kuwait to see his family.
Despite trips in and out of the UK since, he had ‘never been stopped before’ last September.
Mr Alfoudari and eight of his friends had been asked to leave the club, popular with A-listers,.due to rowdy behaviour
Mr Clegg said suggestions he fled the jurisdiction were a ‘slight exaggeration’.
‘This was an ugly incident indeed,’ said Judge Jeffery Pegden QC.
‘You gave pursuit to the prince, if I may call him such, down the road and were a party to – and I use my words carefully – a party to the violence that was then inflicted upon him.
‘It is right and I accept Mr Clegg’s submission that there is no coverage of you actually striking the Prince and it seems to me that it must follow that there had been some sort of incident in the club before the violence outside.
‘You had your own blood upon you and there is no account for that at all in any part of the incident outside of the club.
‘So, despite your intoxication there must have been some sort of incident in the club before the pursuit and consequent violence outside.’
Referring to the time Alfoudari spent tagged and in custody before his father, who owns two UK properties worth £3million, stumped up £1million to secure him bail, the judge said there was ‘absolutely no point’ imposing a short suspended custodial sentence as he had effectively already served it.
Alfoudari, from Marylebone, central London, admitted affray and was fined £750 and ordered to pay £750 costs.
Source: Mail Online
