DAVID Cameron was urged yesterday to help free a young British man jailed in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after admitting drug offences under torture.

Legal charity Reprieve wrote to the Prime Minister about the plight of 21-year-old Ahmad Zeidan, who faces a nine-year stretch in Sharjah prison after being arrested by the city’s police in December and charged with drug offences.

He was hooded, beaten and threatened with rape in the week following his arrest.