Brit hanged in Qatar hotel had been 'tortured by secret police' during three-week ordeal

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Qatar's 'secret police' before his death.Found dead in the Curve Hotel in Doha on Christmas Day in 2019, Marc Bennett, 52, a travel industry executive, had told his friends before his death that the secret police had detained and tortured him.Mr Bennett moved to the Gulf in 2012 and was headhunted to become senior vice-president at Discover Qatar, to increase the nation's tourism industry for the 2022 World Cup that begins in November.READ MORE: Britain's best police dog honoured after dragging suspect from hedge by genitalsIn October 2019, he announced his resignation from the company and was reported to the police under the accusation that he had sent "highly confidential documents" to an external email address.According to a former colleague, Mr Bennett's resignation was taken as a "massive insult".The final weeks of his life were marred by the poor treatment he had suffered after his arrest.Following his arrest at the Qatar Airways Office, he was handcuffed and blindfolded before being transported to a state security detention centre.Having been released from the detention centre three weeks later, Mr Bennett listed what he had undergone including being stripped of his clothes, sprayed with a high pressure hose and being subjected to methods of sleep deprivation.His death had been labelled as suicide, but a coroner in the UK said that Mr Bennett showed "no specific evidence of suicidal intent" before his death, adding that "the circumstances of the months leading up to his death remain unclear".The night before he died, he was on a video call, "laughing and joking" with his wife Nancy and their children and despite his death being ruled a suicide, Mr Bennett did not leave a suicide note.To stay up to date with all.