As Prince Saud Bin Abdulaziz Bin Nasir al-Saud is found guilty of murdering his aide and lover, Bandar Abdulaziz, Sholto Byrnes writing in the New Statesman believes "justice has been done". "Nevertheless, the exposure of the difference between the puritan façade maintained by Saudi Arabia and the reality behind it – whether that be a matter of odious hypocrisy or of cruel repression of certain ways of life – could be useful. I say "could", because if the international coverage of this case merely strengthens the hands of the Wahhabists who say the kingdom's problem is that it is being dangerously open and not policing the morals of its inhabitants strictly enough, then that is not a welcome outcome at all..."
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