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Will Durrant

‘Chummy’ UK-UAE links could stifle efforts to free detained Briton, warns family

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum is the leader of Dubai (PA) - (PA Archive)

Britain’s “chummy” relationship with the United Arab Emirates could be stifling efforts to free a British property developer imprisoned in Dubai, his family has said.

Ryan Cornelius’s brother-in-law told the PA news agency he does not have much hope of an intervention by the British Government, after an MP urged authorities in the Middle East to offer Mr Cornelius clemency before the UAE National Day on December 2.

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