Saudi prince guilty of servant's murder

The prince then spent hours on the phone to a mysterious contact in Saudi Arabia trying to decide how to cover up what he had done.

Sources said detectives in the case had received little help after requests for information were sent through Interpol to their Saudi colleagues.

Saud's lawyers also failed in a last-ditch attempt to stop details of his encounters with male escorts being revealed during the trial. In a sign of the anxiety about his sexuality becoming public...