Media boss ‘threatened to cut woman to pieces’

A Qatari media boss threatened to cut a woman into pieces after laying out a knife, a plastic bag and tape next to her while as she slept, a court heard. Saleh Al-Mesallam, 32, is accused of repeatedly raping the woman between January and March last year at his luxury Peninsula Apartment in Paddington, west London. Al-Mesallam took the woman’s phone and wallet so she could not escape him and changed the passwords to her accounts so she could not…