Channel director ‘raped woman in £1.5m flat’

A media boss raped a woman and held her prisoner in a £1.5million flat, a court heard. Qatari Saleh Almesallam, 31, is accused of attacking the woman, who cannot be named, in the luxury Penninsula Apartments complex in Paddington on January 28 this year. He is further accused of causing her grievous bodily harm with intent in an attack that left her with broken bones, Southwark Crown Court heard. Almesallam is also charged with four counts of assault occasioning actual…