A LAWYER has claimed that the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain compelled her client, an American athlete, to take the blame in an ongoing drugs trial in order to ward off suspicion from a serviceman.
Alya Al Zeera told the High Criminal Court yesterday that personnel from the US Navy had ‘used promises and intimidation’ assuring that the defendant would walk free if he stood trial in place of the naval officer .
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