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MAKTOUM'S MERCY AFTER SCHOOLBOY MARCUS'S DUBAI DALLIANCE
Scottish Daily Express
|July 12, 2025
THANK God for the wisdom and mercy of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai and prime minister of the UAE — and that’s not a sentence you get to read very often.
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The Sheikh this week pardoned and freed Tottenham schoolboy Marcus Fakana, the 19-year-old who has been languishing in Dubai's notorious Al Awir prison for months. Marcus, you'll remember, had sex with a British girl when they were both on holiday in Du
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