Brit footballer jailed for 25 years over CBD oil ‘beaten & TASERED’ in hellhole Dubai prison to ‘force confession’

The British football coach jailed for 25 years after being found with harmless CBD vape oil was “tortured” and “stabbed” in a Dubai prison, he told a friend.

Billy Hood, 24, was found guilty of possession, sale and drug trafficking after police found only four small bottles of spray oil in his car.

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Billy Hood was sentenced to 25 years in prison after police found CBD in his carCredit: SWNS

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Billy’s friend Alfie Cain said he was “stabbed” and “tortured” in Dubai prison

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Billy’s friend had left four bottles of harmless CBD oil in his carCredit: Getty

And, speaking to a friend after his arrest in January, he described facing horrific conditions in the notorious Al-Barsha prison in Dubai.

Football agent Alfie Cain, says Billy was beaten daily for five days while Dubai CID agents tried to force the young coach to confess to drug crimes.

“Al-Barsha has been wrong, I’m not going to put it down,” said Alfie, a former London footballer who did not belong to the league.

“When they took him to the CID drug unit they beat him for five whole days, he told me the police officers did chores on him, they hit him in the face and all they fed him was bread and little water.

“He was basically tortured and put in a cell with 30 more people for five days.”

Billy told Alfie, who was also 24, that he only signed the drug trafficking confession because officers told him that if he signed the document, written in Arabic, they would stop the abuse.

“Billy said he was told he could come home if he signed the paper, so he gave in and signed that piece of paper in Arabic. He had no idea what he was signing, but he just wanted it to stop.”

According to Human Rights Watch, an international non-governmental organization, Al-Barsha was named one of three detention centers across the country where prisoners live in poor conditions.

Their findings stated that family members said Al-Barsha prisoners were denied adequate medical care and that overcrowding and unhealthy conditions made hygiene practices difficult, especially during the pandemic.

Vaping CBD oil is legal in the UK and has become a very popular product, which is generally used to relieve pain, anxiety or stress.

But sometimes it contains trace elements of THC, the main psychoactive compound found in cannabis, 24-year-old Billy was arrested and jailed under medieval UAE drug laws.

After his arrest on Jan. 31, activists say Billy was forced to sign a false confession written in Arabic admitting the most serious crimes of selling and trafficking oil.

“100 PERCENT INNOCENT”

And last week he surprised Billy, of Ladbroke Grove, London, who was found guilty and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Breda, Billy’s mother, heartbroken, told The Sun: “I don’t think there’s a word in the dictionary that describes the pain I’m going through.

“I can’t talk about it without tears in my eyes. It is too difficult to accommodate.

Breda, 55, said: “This is not our Billy, he is 100% innocent.” There was no help from the embassy. We have been in constant contact with them. put in touch with them every day. The most I have about them is that ‘it’s okay’ “.

In a statement through his lawyers, Billy said he had just moved to Dubai to train children’s football and that he was arrested when he went to get something from his car.

“They jumped to arrest me, handcuffed me. An officer jumped up and pointed a Taser at me, threatening to use it if I didn’t cooperate, ”he said.

“They demanded that they be shown where the drugs were. I was shocked, scared and confused. I told them I had no knowledge or any drugs or substances. “

Police had told Billy that they were interested in him for something they had seen on social media.

Convinced they had the wrong man, Billy allowed officers to search his apartment and car and underwent a voluntary drug test that turned out to be negative.

Officers found several thousand pounds of cash in his apartment, which Billy says was money from his new employer while he was setting up a bank account.

The founder and CEO of the Dubai-detained pressure group, Radha Stirling, described his treatment and sentence as “extreme”.

She told The Sun: “He spent four days in prison and was forced and forced to sign a confession, which is common in Dubai.

It’s amazing, 25 years to have an oil that can’t even get you up, it’s extreme

Radha Stirling, CEO of Detained in Dubai

“Owning CBD oil would be a very small sentence, possibly a few years at most, but as traffic and sales have been added, it has become 25 years.

“The only proof is the confession in Arabic and I didn’t know what he was signing.

“It’s amazing, 25 years to have an oil that can’t even get you up, it’s extreme.”

Ms Stirling says a Billy lawyer will file an appeal and her organization plans to pressure the British government for help in trying to overturn the sentence.

In the United Arab Emirates there is zero tolerance for drug-related offenses.

Penalties for trafficking, smuggling and possession of drugs (even residual amounts) are severe.

Sentences for drug trafficking can include the death penalty and possession of even the smallest amount of illegal drugs can lead to a minimum sentence of four years in prison.

Billy’s family has created a GoFundMe page that has so far raised almost £ 11,000.

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Al Barsha Prison in Dubai where Billy is locked up

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Billy’s friend described the hellish conditions he has faced in Dubai prisonCredit: Facebook

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