Former Leeds United managing director David Haigh has revealed the torturous conditions he suffered while in a Dubai prison.
Haigh was acquitted of fraud last month after being detained for 22 months in a prison by authorities in the United Arab Emirates.
He has now spoken out about his time in jail and revealed how he was mistreated.
"I was punched around, I was hit, I was tasered," he told the Yorkshire Evening Post. "People attempted to sexually abuse me. I now have a problem with my eyes, you are constantly kept in the dark... it damages your eyes.
"I will never forget, I was sitting there and the police are torturing a guy behind me. I don't know what he had done, but they had thrown him on the floor, tasering him, kicking him in the head, three or four of them, getting a catapult, putting it on his testicles."
Talking to the BBC's Newsnight, Haigh added: "They were trying to scare me, telling me that I needed to confess, that if I confessed everything would be fine, that I could leave, they would give me bail – but if I didn't, I was looking at ten years."
Haigh resigned as MD of Leeds after the takeover of Italian businessman Massimo Cellino.
Pascal Lemesre
