Family of detained Brit in Dubai say Foreign Office is ‘treating them like dirt’
David Lammy, an unfairly imprisoned Briton family in Dubai, accused the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of “acting like dir after canceling a delayed meeting to discuss that he would be released just a few minutes before the arrival of his loved ones.
His wife Heather Cornelius and his brother -in -law Chris Pagett spent three hours to travel to London last Tuesday to discuss the last 17 years in a Dubai prison. The longest British are currently detained on charges that are understood to be unfair.
His 71 -year -old father spent his children’s lives imprisoning for alleged fraud 370 million pounds. The United Arab Emirates, illegally, bribed to personnel from Dubai Islamic Bank of Dubai (DIB), but the United Nations says that the crime of fraud is unfair. Last month, the European Parliament took a decision in Awir prison, which requested to be detained in “inhuman conditions ve and“ urgent and unconditional release ..
The UAE said Mr. Cornelius, despite the fact that DIB seized beings exceeding £ 800 million from the British businessman, he could not be released until his debt was repaid. Mr Cornelius accuses the DIB as “effective prisons”, headed by a senior, non -royal government official.
Former Foreign Minister Lord David Cameron met with Mrs. Cornelius and Mr. Pagett last year to help the release of Mr. Cornelius last year, but the family says that the next workers’ government was less useful, although the Brits advocated the need for improved advocacy. Sir Keir Starmer is reported to be on the verge of adopting an £ 1.6 billion trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council, where the UAE is a key member.
After Ms. Cornelius asked the Prime Minister to intervene in April, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs contacted to hold a meeting.
Cornelius was hesitating at the beginning of demanding a meeting with the Prime Minister, but even if the previous negotiations with foreign secretaries did not result in the invitation of this last encounter, he accepted the invitation to see some positive effects.
However, after sleepless nights with the expectation of the meeting, Ms. Cornelius found that an official told him that the meeting was suddenly canceled, and that he returned to “despair” and “despair” on the M4 side.
The low -level diplomat said that the meeting could not continue because the Middle East Junior official Hamish Falconer became ill. He refused to explain why this would affect a meeting with Mr. Lammy, or why he could not be transferred to London for his appointments 5.30 PM. They added that they would later be in contact to discuss the reorganization of the appointment.
In a letter sent by Mr. Pagett to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday morning, Independent, Mother -in -law, Ms. Cornelius later became a “gloomy ulum”.
Pagett, who appealed to the diplomat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, wrote: “I hope you never need to hear that a member of your family heard a glory despair I heard from Heather yesterday.”
Speaking later on Wednesday, Pagett explained that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs considered them as “emotionless, and said in his life that he had never been so angry”. “They make you feel like a s ** t,” he said.
For Mr. Cornelius, this last “Kick in the teeth” from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is more damaging to his hopes to be released. Pagett calls for the release of the European Parliament and the UN to the release of Mr. Cornelius, while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs continues to be “slippery ve and is missing in empathy.
Independent He contacted the exterior office to comment.
