I was raped in Dubai prison cell and saw a man tortured to death by having his throat stamped on: Brit who spent 22 months locked up in 'desert hellhole' warns people to NEVER go there and describes terrifying ordeal

A Brit who spent 22 months locked up successful a 'desert hellhole' situation successful Dubai has described his terrifying ordeal - informing radical to ne'er spell there.

David Haigh, the ex-managing manager of Leeds United, has claimed helium was raped portion connected the level successful his compartment and saw a antheral tortured to decease by having his pharynx stamped on.

The maltreatment Haigh says helium faced included being punched, tasered, deed with a broom grip and torched during his incarceration astatine Bur Dubai constabulary station.

The past shot brag was accused of channelling wealth into his ain accounts by the club's Dubai-based owners - a complaint helium continues to statement trumped-up.

He said his shocking acquisition could person been repeated connected the caller high-profile lawsuit of Irish aerial hostess Tori Towey who was threatened with jailhouse aft she was charged with drinking alcohol and trying to instrumentality her ain beingness aft having allegedly suffered home abuse.

Now Mr Haigh has spoken to MailOnline to uncover however his acquisition successful Dubai's prisons near him suffering from PTSD, nightmares and flashbacks.

He said: 'I went from moving a shot nine to lying connected the level of a situation compartment being raped.

'When I heard them accidental 'We termination Brits here' I conscionable thought it was them trying to scare me.

'I saw idiosyncratic who was killed successful beforehand of maine due to the fact that helium was being tortured - they dragged him to 1 country and I could perceive them beating him and they brought him backmost and helium fell down adjacent to maine and they stood connected his throat.' 

When asked astir wherefore the constabulary carried retired the alleged torture methods, Mr Haigh said: 'To get confessions. Some of them usage it due to the fact that they are evil radical and due to the fact that they can, they instrumentality them retired to the desert, enactment a container implicit their head, enactment a weapon to their caput and they bash it for sadistic fun.'

He was arrested successful May 2014 aft flying to the UAE for a gathering with the club's erstwhile owners Gulf Financial House (GFH) successful Dubai.

Mr Haigh, who led the negotiations for GFH's takeover of Leeds United successful 2012 from businessman Ken Bates, believed the gathering was astir mounting up a backstage equity concern house.

But alternatively helium was confronted by a section constabulary serviceman who accused him of an irregularity with a cheque.

He was past taken to a constabulary presumption wherever helium attempted to repay the tiny magnitude of wealth owed - but past recovered himself locked up connected a mendacious charge.

Haigh said that the conditions of his compartment were filthy with earthy sewage leaking onto the floor.

He said: 'Unsanitary doesn't bash it justice, determination isn't immoderate toilet paper. The nutrient you get has nary nutritional worth - they wouldn't springiness it to animals here. When I was determination we believed it was drugged with immoderate chemic to subdue people

'The toilets are conscionable buckets extracurricular filled with soiled h2o with flies astir which you person to scoop retired with your hands

'There is nary toilet to beryllium on, determination are holes successful the floor, nary cleaning fluids provided due to the fact that they tin beryllium utilized for poison

'There are 5 oregon six times much radical successful it than determination should person been.'  

But Mr Haigh is not the lone Western tourer oregon ex-pat who has been locked up alongside unsafe criminals successful unsanitary, cramped cells.

In galore cases it has been claimed that prisoners successful Dubai are not charged but are alternatively forced to confess to a transgression portion successful custody. 

Conditions successful the jails were brought sharply into absorption aft it emerged that Irish aerial hostess Tori Towey could person faced the wrong of a situation compartment this week.

Travel restrictions connected her person since been lifted allowing her to instrumentality location pursuing frantic diplomatic efforts. 

Mr Haigh has present revealed astir however Ms Towey escaped 'horrors that I don't deliberation anyone speechmaking this volition understand'.

He said: 'It's degrading for the men but adjacent much truthful for the women - they are kept abstracted from the men but they are successful the aforesaid jail, conscionable successful the adjacent building

'I tried to instrumentality my ain beingness erstwhile I was there, if you propulsion that you are suicidal you volition extremity up successful a precise atrocious intelligence institution, adjacent worse than the jail, you are treated arsenic if you are a criminal

'The process that she would person to spell through, adjacent if she was mentally strong, is horrendous.'

Mr Haigh besides spoke astir however the ineligible strategy successful Dubai seems to beryllium stacked successful the man's favour, with constabulary officers choosing to judge them implicit women.

He told the Sun Ms Towey was 'lucky' to beryllium released arsenic rapidly arsenic she was.

'I’d accidental 90 per cent of radical successful Dubai are unknowingly breaking the instrumentality and erstwhile there’s an contented the instrumentality comes astatine you.

'Each time that goes by determination are Brits and different nationalities locked up successful Dubai that shouldn’t beryllium determination but can’t get retired due to the fact that the justness strategy is corrupt.

'I was imprisoned 10 years agone and I judge I’d beryllium dormant oregon inactive successful determination present if I didn’t tally a shot nine and had a precocious profile.'

Mr Haigh told MailOnline his proposal to those looking to question to Dubai would beryllium to 'just don't go'. 

He said: 'There are thousands of different Brits and westerners successful those jails now, truthful galore and truthful galore different nationalities

'People request to aftermath up to what Dubai is truly like, it's a hellhole.

'I lived determination for 10 years successful an implicit bubble, you get drawn successful and commencement believing the lies.

'I started to spot the crushed that I tin spend the cleaner 4 times a week was due to the fact that she was treated similar a slave, the quality outgo of the bully beingness that I have. 

'The fool's paradise that they unrecorded successful is thing different than a paradise.'

After helium got backmost from Dubai successful March 2016, helium spent 7 months successful infirmary trying to retrieve from the horrors of prison. 

In his first interrogation the period aft helium was released, Mr Haigh said: 'They instrumentality maine to a country astatine the side. They support maine waiting for an hour, past different hour, and past a woman came successful and said: "Did you instrumentality 23 million?".

'I said 'what bash you mean?' She said: "GFH. 23 million. Where is it?".

'I had gone from moving a shot club, to having tummy surgery, to getting connected a plane, to landing, to sitting successful a constabulary station, being whacked successful the look by immoderate dodgy constabulary feline wearing a greenish uniform, shouting astatine maine successful Arabic "where is the money?"'

Mr Haigh was told helium wasn't getting bail and was led down a corridor into a cramped detention centre without immoderate further mentation of the charges against him.

'I volition ne'er forget, the odor got truthful atrocious arsenic you walked towards the doorway wherever they were going to enactment you in. It was horrific, a substance of everything you don't privation to odor successful your life.

They opened this robust doorway and pushed maine in, and slammed it shut. There were nary papers, oregon "this is what you person been accused of" - that was it.'

During his clip successful a hot, soiled situation compartment wherever sewage was leaking everyplace Haigh said helium was denied entree to his wealth and deprived of medicine helium needed aft his tummy operation.

He claims helium was lone allowed to talk to his lawyers for 2 minutes a week and was subjected to and witnessed torture during his clip down bars.

He said: 'They came and got maine successful the mediate of the night, they took maine extracurricular to the car park, past moved maine into a room, and past I was rather earnestly physically abused, tasered, whacked successful the face, made to basal successful unusual positions, and told repeatedly "where is the money?".

'I was told if I confessed I could spell home. I said I wouldn't confess, I didn't bash it, you tin transportation connected torturing me.

'You are surrounded by this depravity. I volition ne'er forget, I was sitting determination and the constabulary are torturing a feline down me.

'I don't cognize what helium had done, but they had thrown him connected the floor, tasering him, kicking him successful the head, 3 oregon 4 of them, getting a catapult, putting it connected his testicles.

'The intelligence anguish that puts you through, that you are nether a changeless menace of abuse, that continued each the mode through.

'A period earlier I near wherever I was recently, I was lasting successful the corridor waiting to get immoderate painkillers and a defender came and deed maine implicit the caput with a broom grip for nary evident reason.'

In 2015 helium was recovered blameworthy of 'breach of trust' by defrauding GFH of £3m by falsifying invoices and diverting wealth into accounts controlled by him.

Since returning to Britain, Mr Haigh has been spending clip with his household successful westbound Cornwall but is successful the process of taking ineligible enactment implicit his treatment.

He mislaid astir 40kgs successful value during his incarceration and said the interaction connected his wellness has been 'kind of bad'.

He added: 'The maltreatment I suffered, I was punched around, I was hit, I was tasered. People attempted to sexually maltreatment me.

'I person a occupation with my eyes, you are perpetually kept successful the dark, the lights are precise seldom on, truthful you can't spot properly, it damages your eyes. Just the unbelievable accent you spell through, you are trying to support yourself and archer the world.'

In a connection astir David’s case, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office told The Guardian successful 2016: 'Our embassy unit were successful astir regular interaction with Mr Haigh passim his detention, and this included regular checks connected his welfare.

'We besides regularly raised his lawsuit with UAE authorities, letting them cognize we were pursuing it closely.

'We instrumentality Mr Haigh’s allegations of mistreatment highly earnestly and are mounting retired our concerns to the UAE authorities. We lone rise allegations of mistreatment erstwhile we person the individual’s consent to bash so.'