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A British businessman, Peter Howarth Lees, was attacked in a supermarket car park in Saudi Arabia, after he had tried to pay a female cashier at a supermarket in Riyadh. As he and his Saudi-born wife, Abeer al-Fouti, were directed to a female cashier at the family checkout, they were confronted by members of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (known as the Haia) the country's Religious Police, who followed them outside and attacked him. Mr Howarth-Lees, a Muslim convert who also runs an estate agent and whose company was the first to organise stand-up comedy in the country said three men "savagely kicked" him and "stamped on" his face. This clip is originally from the Shelagh Fogarty programme with Tony Livesey on Friday 5 September 2014.
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