Saudi embassy helped accused rapist flee Canada

By Brad Hunter

And another one’s gone.

A Saudi Arabian man who failed to show for his trial on two counts of sex assault and one of sexual interference in Halifax has skipped town.

Taher Ali Al-Saba — who was in the country learning English — is just the latest Saudi national to skip facing the music, allegedly with the help of his country’s diplomats.

The embassy informed the RCMP’s immigration and passport section the then 19-year-old is now back home.

That was even though Halifax cops held his passport.

So far, the Saudi embassy is refusing to answer how he got a new passport before the 2007 trial to escape justice.

“They refused to cooperate with us in terms of telling us how that happened,” Crown attorney Catherine Cogswell told The Chronicle Herald, who broke the story.