Saudi shocker

SAUDI Arabia’s brutal regime will be the author of its own downfall when nobody believes a word it says about the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

A member of a hit squad dressing as the murdered target to throw investigators off is another guilty twist in a macabre scandal.

The Saudis must produce his body and allow it be inspected by independent forensic teams.

Claims the killers were a rogue squad were understandably greeted with huge scepticism when the Riyadh ruling elite operates with fear and few dare to step out of line.

The bid to save the reputation of a Crown Prince suspected to have bloodsoaked hands is already a failure. Business as usual isn’t an option for a British Government which must stop rolling out the red carpet for some of the world’s very worst human rights abusers.