UK ‘adulterer’ freed from jail

A SCOTS mother who was thrown into prison in Bahrain for alleged adultery is free to return to the UK.

Hannah James, 26, originally from Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, was detained last month in the ultraconservative Muslim state where Sharia law is enforced after her husband Jassim Alhaddar, 30, reported her to police. Miss James’s family claimed her allegedly abusive husband burned her passport when she tried to leave him and told authorities she was having an affair. But last night the Mail located a passport belonging to Miss James, pictured, in an apartment she had been renting with a man in Bahrain’s capital, Manama.

A concierge at the £75-a-night block said Miss James, a vet receptionist, had arrived with a Saudi Arabian man on December 6 before her husband found her.

The couple, who married in Bahrain last year, have a four-year-old son, Nelson, who has been brought back to Britain.

The Bahrain Embassy said Miss James was free to return to the UK.