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Wednesday 31 July 2019 The Guardian •National^7
Haroon SiddiqueThe estranged wife of the ruler of
Dubai has asked an English court for
a forced marriage protection order
relating to their children and a non-
molestation order after the breakdown
of the marriage.
Princess Haya of Jordan, 45,
appeared in the family court division
of the high court, central London, yes-
terday, for a preliminary hearing.
A forced marriage protection order
aims to protect a person who has been
or is being forced into marriage. Non-
molestation orders can protect against
violence or harassment by a partner,
ex-partner or family member.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid
al-Maktoum, who did not appear at
the hearing, is arguing in the sameproceedings for the return of the
couple’s two children to Dubai.
Princess Haya has applied for ward-
ship of the children.
The case is being heard by Andrew
McFarlane, the president of the high
court’s family division.
The bare facts of the applications
sought by the disputing parties can
be reported after the Guardian, with
the support of other media organisa-
tions, challenged restrictions imposed
on the case.
This month in a highly unusual
move after extensive international
publicity, the couple issued a state-
ment saying the proceedings were
“concerned with the welfare of the two
children of their marriage and do not
concern divorce or fi nances”.
Before the breakdown of their mar-
riage, Sheikh Mohammed and Princess
Haya had been described as a perfectcouple and often appeared together at
international social events. Princess
Haya, the daughter of the late King
Hussein of Jordan, is close to the Brit-
ish royal family and owns an £85m
house near Kensington Palace. She
married Sheikh Mohammed in 2004
and is his sixth wife.
Sheikh Mohammed, 70, is vice-
president and prime minister of theUnited Arab Emirates as well as ruler
of Dubai. The billionaire sheikh is also
the founder of the Godolphin horse
racing stable and last month received
a trophy from the Queen after one of
his horses won a race at Royal Ascot.
The princess was educated at pri-
vate schools in the UK and studied
philosophy, politics and economics
at Oxford University. She has served on
the International Olympic Committee
and has been a goodwill ambassador
for the U N world food programme.
The Emirati royal family has already
been subjected to unwelcome pub-
licity over the case of Princess Latifa ,
Sheikh Mohammed’s daughter. She
allegedly escaped Dubai and was
seized by commandos off the coast of
India and returned to her home.
Emirati authorities rubbished
allegations over Princess Latifa’s treat-
ment and abduction as fi ction, saying
she was “vulnerable to exploitation”
and had been kidnapped.
Princess Haya’s legal team includes
Fiona Shackleton, who represented
Prince Charles during his divorce from
Princess Diana. The sheikh’s team
includes Helen Ward QC, of Stewarts
Law, who has represented Andrew
Lloyd Webber. The case continues.Dubai ruler’s wife asks UK court
for marriage protection order
Princess
Haya of Jordan
with Sheikh
Mohammed
bin Rashid
al-Maktoum
at Royal Ascot
in June 2012
PHOTOGRAPH:
ALASTAIR GRANT /APSimon MurphyScotland Yard has come under
renewed fi re over its handling of a
£2.5m inquiry into false VIP paedo-
phile ring allegations, after a retired
high court judge who reviewed the
investigation said police broke the law.
Sir Richard Henriques is calling
for a criminal investigation, saying
Metropolitan police offi cers “unlaw-
fully” obtained search warrants by
using false evidence to raid the homes
of high-profi le fi gures during their
inquiry into Carl Beech’s allegations.
Henriques – whose 2016 review
found a catalogue of failings – said
detectives described Beech as
“consistent”, misleading a judge
into issuing search warrants to raid
the homes of the D- day veteran Lord
Bramall, the widow of the former
home secretary Leon Brittan, and the
former Tory MP Harvey Proctor.
The attack comes after Beech, 51,
was jailed for 18 years last week after
being found guilty of 12 counts of per-
verting the course of justice and one
of fraud. He had claimed an estab-
lishment group abused and murdered
boys in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The policing watchdog, the Inde-
pendent Offi ce for Police Conduct
[IOPC], announced it had cleared three
offi cers involved in the police’s inquiry
into Beech’s claims. But in an article for
the Daily Mail, Henriques said : “The
course of justice was perverted with
shocking consequences ... A criminal
investigation must surely follow.”
His 2016 review of the Metropolitan
police’s Operation Midland high-
lighted 43 separate failings.
Henriques said he stood by his
fi ndings, writing: “I concluded in my
review – and maintain the opinion- that the three search warrants
authorising the searches of the homes
of Lord Bramall, Lady Brittan and Har-
vey Proctor were obtained unlawfully.”
Daniel Janner, son of the late Lord
Janner, who was falsely accused of
abuse by Beech, called for the IOPC
report to be reopened.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said:
“None of the fi ve offi cers involved
in the original referral or the three
offi cers subject to investigation [by
the IOPC] were found to have cases
to answer.
Met police
broke the law
in Carl Beech
case, says
former judge
Farmers ‘devastated’ at being
made to destroy hemp crop
Henry McDonaldTwo hemp farmers have been left dev-
astated after having to destroy 40 acres
of a crop whose end product could be
bought legally on the high street.
Patrick Gillett and Ali Silk said they
had to cut down their cannabis crop
because the Home Offi ce told them
they were no longer able to harvest it
for cannabis oil, or CBD.The pair said they were perplexed
over the order to cease production at
their co-operative, non-profi t farm.
“For three years we operated openly
and always kept the Home Office
informed ,” Gillett said.
“It was devastating to have to rip
the entire crop up just because the
Home Offi ce changed its guidelines.
In fact, one of their guidelines is that
any cannabis oil extracted from the
hemp plant only contains 0.2% of THC
( tetrahydrocannabinol, the substancethat produces a psycho active high),
which we also stuck by.
“ It seems we are being punished for
being upfront and honest about what
we were doing .”
Silk, who gave up a lucrative job in
the City of London this year to pursue
the venture, said: “We are being
banned from producing something
organically, something which is also
good for the environment by its carbon
capture, that is available in shops on
any British high street. You can go into
health and well being stores and buy
CBD oil over the counter yet we can’t
produce here in these fi elds in England
because the Home Offi ce treats hemp
like narcotics or fi rearms.”
Silk estimated that their company,Hempen, would lose about £200,
due to the destroyed crop this year,
and said that their projections for sales
over the next few years were £2.4m.
She said it would be foreign hemp
growers who would reap the benefi ts.
Gillett said: “ No one in the Home
Offi ce ... ever said to us, ‘stop what you
are doing, this is illegal’. They allowed
us to get started and then after a per-
fect year, a wet spring and hot summer,
we had a bumper crop – which they
made us destroy last Tuesday. It
doesn’t make sense.”
A Home Offi ce spokesperson said
that it did not “routinely comment
on individual licences”. However, it
is understood that Hempen does not
currently hold a Home Offi ce licen ce.▲ Protests against Sheikh Mohammed
outside the high court yesterday‘The course of justice
was perverted
with shocking
consequences. A
criminal inquiry
must surely follow’Sir Richard Henriques
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