The incident last September
has only come to light after it became widely known among
locals.
The diplomatic protection
officers had been patrolling outside the former Prime Minister’s £4.3 million
London
townhouse.
They approached the man,
who appeared to be drunk, urinating on Mr. Blair’s front
doorstep.
A scuffle ensued in the 3am
incident and the police fired the 50,000-volt taser to incapacitate the Arab man
so they could arrest him.
The unarmed suspect, Ayedh
Alrashidi, who only speaks Arabic and understands little English, collapsed and
was taken to a nearby hospital.
It was later revealed that
Mr Alrashidi, 40, described as ‘a wealthy and peaceful man’, is a government
official from
Kuwait.
He was charged with being
drunk and disorderly and assaulting a police
officer.
At a later hearing at
Westminster Magistrates Court, an agreement was reached between the Crown
Prosecution Service and his solicitor that Mr Alrashidi would be bound over to
keep the peace for a year.
Mr Tablieh said: ‘Mr
Alrashidi is a Kuwaiti national, who lives abroad. He doesn’t speak very good
English. He is a peaceful man and he didn’t realise what was
happening.’
Mr Alrashidi had been
staying with friends in a flat just ten minutes walk from Mr Blair’s West London
home in Connaught Square.
A friend of Mr Alrashidi
said: ‘He didn’t deserve to be treated like that, he is a man who lives a life
of luxury in
Kuwait, as a respected government
official. He didn’t realise he was outside Mr Blair’s
home.’
A Scotland Yard police
spokesman said: ‘A taser was deployed and a man was charged with assault and
being drunk and disorderly.’
(SOURCE)
GUESS PISSING ON THE
FRONT PORCH IS PART OF KUWATI HIGH CLASS CULTURE…