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| British businessman David Haigh acquitted in Dubai over tweet | British businessman David Haigh acquitted in Dubai over tweet |
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| Briton David Haigh, the former managing director of Leeds United, has been acquitted in Dubai over charges relating to a tweet. | Briton David Haigh, the former managing director of Leeds United, has been acquitted in Dubai over charges relating to a tweet. |
| Mr Haigh had previously pleaded not guilty to cyber slander after he was accused of sending an offensive tweet about a business partner. | |
| He has been behind bars in Dubai since May 2014, serving a two-year sentence for financial misappropriation. | |
| His spokesman said he was delighted to see the end of a "22-month nightmare". | |
| He expected Mr Haigh to return to the UK in two to three days, the spokesman added. | |
| The Yorkshire-born solicitor and businessman was originally arrested in Dubai on 18 May 2014, when he was detained without charge for 14 months and had his worldwide assets frozen. | |
| Then in August 2015, he was convicted of misappropriating items of monetary value from a position of trust from his former Dubai-based employer and sentenced to two years in prison - the majority of which he had already served. | |
| He had expected to return to the UK on 16 November last year, after serving 18 months behind bars. | |
| The latest complaint against Mr Haigh was from his former employer, investment bank Gulf Finance House (GFH), and referred to remarks made on Twitter. | |
| Mr Haigh denied the allegations and argued that he could not have committed the alleged Twitter offence while in jail. | |
| The Briton had been the deputy chief executive of GFH Capital Limited, a fully-owned subsidiary of GFH, before resigning on 10 March 2014. |