The muttawa prob would have preferred her to die than do something they see as unIslamic, remember all those poor schoolgirls who were turned back into their burning school and left to die cos they weren’t wearing their hijabs.
A brilliant blog I used to with snippets about life in KSA and more examples of the stupidity of the religious police:
Check out the bit about ‘ice-cream Jihad’ - a woman harassed by the religious police for licking her ice-cream the wrong way. I was told once that the muttawa are often ex-cons who’ve been released from prison early as they’ve memorised the entire Qur’an which just seems mad..