Nigella's Assistant's Found Not Guilty

[sp1814]

This is just breaking on BBC News - can't find it online.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10526973/Do-you-believe-Nigella-Lawson-approved-spending-when-off-her-head-jury-asked.html

I'm still on Team Nigella, and feel that this trial has all been about her, rather that the actual accused.

[jno]

well, sort of, but she was one of the main witnesses, and the jury was entitled to decide she was less credible than the accused. The jurors saw and listened to them all, we didn't.

[jno]

PS you and Cameron make a lovely couple!

[ummmm]

It says the case continues.

I'm on team Nigella.

[dannyk13]

Just heard on news, both found not guilty.

[mccfluff]

i think its a been a bit of a smear campaign

[ummmm]

So do I, Fluff.

[Zacs-Master]

Major backfire for Nigella.

[dannyk13]

To coin a phrase. Bah! humbug.

[Canary42]

Funny how some people are taken in by a pretty face. And arrogance is mistaken for character.

[jno]

it's the new trout pout that makes them swoon, Canary.


Actually.... I think that's new; it lookes as though she celebrated her divorce with some Botox.

I can't help wondering if it made the jury think she was a bit fake? She looks - in recent photos - rather different from the cuddly cook on our TVs.

[Gromit]

I am surprised by that if true.

The prosecution team must have been really terrible.

But at least the fawning should now stop and that has to be a good thing.

[rockyracoon]

From what the media has portrayed the whole thing has been a total character assasination. Team Nigella here as well.

[dannyk13]

A case of the defence (aided by the press) diverting attention from the accused to a witness.

[Gromit]

'Team Nigella'?

Pass the sick bag Alice.

[flump1]

Team Nigella too . I am sure she has used and stuff and been sailed up the river by those pair of piggies.

[bazwillrun]

team nigella 4FS !

personally I couldnt care less about the case , it doesnt affect my life one jot, but........its pretty sad how many people are taken in by a nice rack and rs

Is she was some skanky council estate Lady I wonder how many would have taken her side ?

[bazwillrun]

ok bin t is a banned word, replaced by Lady..... what a joke this site is

[FredPuli43]

Can't say that I'm surprised. It's a bit difficult to say that you are being dishonest if you receive gifts but you think the gifts are being given because the donor has a guilty secret, though, in fact, you would never tell anyone of it anyway. That is really the line that the defence took. Some reports suggested that the women were using the threat of publicity as a weapon so that Nigella Lawson didn't report theft ,or ostensibly consented to the taking when that consent was not true consent, not freely given. If the jury thought that, then the defence would fail.

What the prosecution appeared to be ignoring was the question line "How much was your salary?" "Were you happy with that?" "It was not £170,000 a year for the two of you was it, £85,000 each p.a.?" " So there's a big difference in what you were earning and what you were taking, wasn't there?" "So for what reason, do you think, did Nigella Lawson decide that your salary ought to be £85k more than it was?"

[ludwig]

A surprising verdict. The defence successfully put Lawson and Saatchi on trial, portraying the accused as long suffering victims of a drug addled flake and her monstrous tyrant of a husband.

None of them come out of it looking particularly good.

[jno]

the PAs come out of it looking not guilty. They'd probably settle for that.