Princesses are guilty of abuse

A princess from Abu Dhabi and her seven daughters have been found guilty of mistreating around 20 servants forced to work for them in a plush Brussels hotel.

A Belgian court found the eight princesses guilty of “human trafficking and degrading treatment”, handing down 15-month suspended prison sentences and fining them 165,000 euros (£144,000).

The case dates back to July 2008, when police raided the then Conrad Hotel, where the now 64-year-old princess, Sheikha Hamda Al-Nahyan, had rented the entire fourth floor for a few months. She and her daughters were alleged to have had people working round the clock.