The trial determined that two top officials, the Saudi crown prince's former top adviser and the consul general in Istanbul, where Khashoggi was killed, were innocent.
The kingdom's current ambassador to Jordan, Nayef Al-Sudairi, was named on Saturday as the envoy to the Palestinians, and also as consul general in Jerusalem.
For its part, the Senatorial optimates chose one of the consuls for eighty seven BC, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a patrician and once Marius's trusted lieutenant.
" Unless, " objected the consul, " he is exceptionally shrewd. An English criminal, you know, is always better concealed in London than anywhere else" .