Media boss ‘threatened to shave off rape victim’s eyebrows’

A Qatari media boss repeatedly raped a woman and beat her until his hands hurt, a court heard. Saleh Al-Mesallam (corr), 32, allegedly kicked and stamped on the victim in a series of attacks at the luxury Peninsula Apartments complex in Paddington, west London. The victim suffered a broken elbow and a mass of cuts and bruising, Southwark Crown Court heard. Al-Mesallam took the woman’s phone and wallet so she could not escape him and changed the passwords to her…

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