Gary O'Nions, 56, also faces eight years in jail and a £400,000 fine as the Saudi authorities try to push through the outstanding cases of several other British businessmen accused of being at the centre of an alleged turf war between rival bootleggers. The Foreign Office, reluctant to criticise the Saudi authorities in public, conceded that its officials were not told about the trial while the London-born businessman's family branded the sentence brutal and unfair.