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In an exclusive interview, retired Detective Chief Inspector David Beck – who led the team investigating the abduction of Princess Shamsa – said Britain had lost its “moral compass” over the unsolved mystery.
He even likened the scandal to the nerve agent poisoning of Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury and the murder of writer Jamal Khashoggi.
Shamsa, sister of missing Princess Latifa, is said to have been snatched from a street in Cambridge in 2000, allegedly on the orders of their father, Sheikh Mohammed Al-Maktoum, 71.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة February 28, 2021 من The Sunday Mirror.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة February 28, 2021 من The Sunday Mirror.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك? تسجيل الدخول
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