A second man has been charged with the murder of Mohammed Al Araimi, an Omani student who was stabbed outside Harrods luxury department store in central London at the end of last year.
Al Araimi, 20, was stabbed to death by two assailants on Basil Street in Knightsbridge at 11.55pm on December 5 while returning from a restaurant in the capital.
The son of a prominent businessman, Al Araimi was a student at King’s College London studying politics and economics.
Court documents allege the two suspects were trying to steal a watch worth between £45,000 (Dh207,000) and £125,000 from the student.
A friend of Al Araimi was found injured at the scene and taken to hospital for treatment. He has since been discharged.
Arseboon Dilbaro, 22, of no fixed address, was charged on Tuesday with murder, grievous bodily harm with intent, attempted robbery and threatening a person with a blade in a public place.
Mr Dilbaro will appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in central London on Wednesday.
He was arrested shortly after 1pm on Tuesday after arriving at Heathrow Airport on a flight from Egypt.
A Kuwaiti man, Badir Alnazi, 24, of no fixed address, was charged in January with the murder of Al Araimi, attempted robbery and possession of a bladed article.
He also appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court and was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey.
Mr Alnazi's next appearance date is yet to be confirmed.
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Gertrude Bell's life in focus
A feature film
At one point, two feature films were in the works, but only German director Werner Herzog’s project starring Nicole Kidman would be made. While there were high hopes he would do a worthy job of directing the biopic, when Queen of the Desert arrived in 2015 it was a disappointment. Critics panned the film, in which Herzog largely glossed over Bell’s political work in favour of her ill-fated romances.
A documentary
A project that did do justice to Bell arrived the next year: Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum’s Letters from Baghdad: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Gertrude Bell. Drawing on more than 1,000 pieces of archival footage, 1,700 documents and 1,600 letters, the filmmakers painstakingly pieced together a compelling narrative that managed to convey both the depth of Bell’s experience and her tortured love life.
Books, letters and archives
Two biographies have been written about Bell, and both are worth reading: Georgina Howell’s 2006 book Queen of the Desert and Janet Wallach’s 1996 effort Desert Queen. Bell published several books documenting her travels and there are also several volumes of her letters, although they are hard to find in print. Original documents are housed at the Gertrude Bell Archive at the University of Newcastle, which has an online catalogue.
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