The Queen faces pressure to ditch her friendship with Dubai’s ruler after the High Court found he was responsible for illegal UK phone hacking.
In a constitutional outrage, the close ally of Britain was able to snoop on the parliamentary emails of Tory peer and former royal lawyer Fiona Shackleton.
Sheikh Mohammed also hacked the iPhone of her client Princess Haya, his wife who fled to Britain in fear of her life and those of her staff.
The Queen (pictured on Wednesday in Windsor) faces pressure to ditch her friendship with Dubai’s ruler after the High Court found he was behind illegal UK phone hacking
The extraordinary revelations should prove a ‘wake-up call’, Labour MP Chris Bryant said last night.
He added: ‘The Foreign Office needs to do a proper inquiry into our relationship with Dubai and I would have thought the Foreign Secretary will be summoning in the ambassador for a “meeting without coffee”.’
A senior judge concluded that Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the horse race-loving friend of the Royal Family and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, committed a ‘total abuse of trust and indeed an abuse of power’.
He previously orchestrated the armed kidnap of his runaway daughter Princess Shamsa from Cambridgeshire in 2000, persuading Tony Blair’s government to hush it up, the High Court heard. He also allegedly abducted her sister Princess Latifa when she too tried to flee Dubai.
In a ruling made public today after the Mail and other media successfully argued for open justice, Sir Andrew McFarlane said: ‘It is more probable than not that the surveillance of the six phones ... was carried out by servants or agents of the father ... with [his] express or implied authority.’
It means the sheikh has been found, on the balance of probabilities, to have yet again ridden roughshod over UK laws with his sinister black ops hacking plot in pursuit of his sixth and youngest wife, Princess Haya, 47.
Pictured: The Queen attends an unveiling of a design For the Shiekh Zayed National Museum accompanied By Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum during a state visit to Abu Dhabi
She fled Dubai in 2019 with their two children Princess Jalila, 13, and Prince Zayed, nine, and now lives in an English country mansion in ‘justified’ terror of him launching a helicopter abduction of them, according to Sir Andrew, who is president of the High Court’s family division.
Last night Scotland Yard revealed it had investigated ‘multiple allegations of crime’ involving six alleged victims.
Sheikh Mohammed, 72, a ‘coercive
