Kuwaiti Princess Fined for Whipping 2 Maids in London
Princess Faria al Sabah of Kuwait was given a six-month suspended sentence and fined $2,200 today for thrashing two maids with electric cable and a riding crop.
“Your conduct was disgraceful, verging on the barbaric,” Judge John Hayman told the 30-year-old princess, who admitted beating the servants for such offenses as sweeping too slowly.
“In this country we no longer have maids, let alone assault them,” the judge said. “Count yourself fortunate that you have avoided being sent to prison by the skin of your teeth.”
Prosecutors said one of the maids, a Sri Lankan national, threw her suitcase from a first-floor window of the luxury home in Bayswater and fled to the Sri Lankan Embassy after the princess held her hand over a kitchen hot plate.
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