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Al Jazeera Prince kills servant
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A Saudi prince has been convicted of murdering one of his servants in a frenzied attack in a British hotel.

A jury in London's Old Bailey criminal court on Tuesday found Prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud guilty of murdering Bandar Abdullah Abdulaziz at the Landmark Hotel in London on February 15.

The 34-year-old prince, whose grandfather is a brother of the current Saudi king, faces a possible life term in prison when he is sentenced on Wednesday.

The jury deliberated 95 minutes before returning its verdict.

Sexual abuse

Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw said the prince had abused his aide in the past, showing jurors a video shot in the Landmark's elevator which appears to show the prince, dressed in white, throwing his 32-year-old servant around and battering him.

Photographs of Abdulaziz stored on a mobile phone "plainly proved" that there was a "sexual element" to the abuse, Laidlaw said.

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