The diplomat admitted to punching his wife, but immunity prevented police from arresting him. She told doctors that her husband had beaten her. * In 1999, the wife of the Japanese consul-general in Vancouver showed up in hospital with two black eyes and a bruised neck.
* In April 2012, in Manila, Panamanian diplomat Erick Bairnals Shcks was accused of raping a 19-year-old Filipino woman, but was released from detention because he enjoyed diplomatic immunity. It was only after a private investigator photographed the alleged rapist that he finally left the US. The Saudi embassy claimed to the US State Department that the victim had actually seen the brother of the accused, and continued to insist that the accused had left the US. However, some months later, the girl encountered the accused at her workplace. He could not be charged because of diplomatic immunity, and was said to have voluntarily left the US. * In 1983, a Saudi Arabian diplomat’s son raped a 16-year-old in the US. But he never faced charges because he, as a family member, enjoyed diplomatic immunity. * In 1981, the son of a Ghanaian diplomat to the UN was identified as the perpetrator of at least two - and possibly 15 - rapes and robberies in New York. Police could do nothing, because the ambassador enjoyed diplomatic immunity. The ambassador reportedly told the Sri Lankan police that his house was Burmese territory. The next morning, he built a pyre on the back lawn of his house and set the body on fire. * In 1967, the Burmese ambassador to Sri Lanka shot his wife whom he suspected of having an affair.
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