Ken Roach.

Gotta be a starter..

Bite me

I prefer Patsy tbh,

She disnae need any smoke and nor mirrors.

 Well...give me time

its a bit like Winston Churchill's famous quip about Russia itself - VELVET... is  a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. It's a platform shrouded, the cynics chime

Ok so its copied  but true 

That's two of us off the Christmas card list 

Still...

...beats Wackaday   

I don't always watch the News so never saw all the coverage of the case. When I did try to follow it one night I got confused as to who was really on trial, the girls or Nigella I've now learnt the girls aren't guilty...so according to the jury all that spending and trips abroad was found to be sanctioned by Nigella and Saatchi? Who reported them to the police that led to this trial, or is it even worth me knowing lol

That's basically it Yella,

She pursued it. 

So Nigella reported them, and then got dragged into the melee with their accusations of her drug taking, as part of their defence? Being rich and famous can have a lot of pitfalls

Fair enough Velvet ,. who cares anyway

Lets get lost in a romantic mist

Lets get crossed off everybody's list...

Like all court cases the accuser stands.

Like Call My Bluff without Peter Robinson.

I am about to fall out a windae Rosie  

He's deffinately out to get her Fluffs.    

I can take or leave her but what he's doing to her is wrong 

Seems like hell hath no fury like a control freak scorned.

I'm not keen on his latest either, but hopefully she'll see the light 

I'm not keen on Trinny either, but if she has any sense she'll take to her heels.

I really hope the Great British public see through his nastiness and despite her indiscretion come out supporting Nigella

As i've always believed - the best revenge is to live well.

Viva Nigella, i say

The thing I don't understand is that he is supposed to be a recluse, but he doesn't seem to have any qualms in exposing his wife of 10 years to the worst kind of public humiliation, thereby exposing himself as well. Strange man. She's well to be out of that relationship.

She didn't stand by him so his reputation was already damamged.

So the gloves were off and its was 'make her look worse' and take the attention away from myself.

Seems to have worked for some

Police are to examine the evidence following TV cook Nigella Lawson's admission as a witness in a court case that she took cocaine.

Scotland Yard had said it would not take action but would review the decision if new evidence came to light.
However, in a further statement the Met said a specialist team would "examine all the evidence emerging".
Giving evidence at the trial of two ex-assistants, she said she had taken the drug, but was not a habitual user.
The personal assistants, Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo, were cleared at Isleworth Crown Court of defrauding Ms Lawson and her former husband Charles Saatchi.
'Way forward'
A Met spokesman had said previously: "Allegations that one of the (alleged) victims was involved in taking Class A drugs have been made during the course of this trial.
"At this stage the Metropolitan Police will not be investigating these allegations. Should any evidence, and that includes material from the trial, that could be investigated come to light this decision will be reviewed."

Nigella Lawson spent two days in the witness box at Isleworth Crown Court

But on Saturday evening another statement was issued: "After the Metropolitan Police Service's MPS) decision not to investigate at this stage was queried in press reporting, we would like to clarify the position with regard to this witness.
"The senior investigating officer received legal advice that the witness's admissions did not by themselves provide sufficient evidence to bring charges.
"On that basis therefore, and in absence of any other corroboration, there is no imminent prospect of a prosecution being mounted.
"As we said, however, should any evidence come to light that can be investigated further we will review this decision.
"A specialist team from the MPS will nevertheless examine all the evidence emerging as part of a review into this matter and in conjunction with the Crown Prosecution Service will determine an appropriate way forward."
Commander Stephen Watson, of the Metropolitan Police, told The Sunday Telegraph that the evidence at Isleworth Crown Court would have "implications".
'Toughened up'
He said: "Part and parcel of that review we will undertake will be to look at all aspects of the testimony that was given in the trial, which is now public knowledge, and will reveal itself in the transcripts of the trial.
"There are implications in terms of what has been said during the course of that trial and all those implications will be taken into account in determining an appropriate way forward."

Elisabetta Grillo (left) and her sister Francesca Grillo outside court

Media lawyer Mark Stephens said he believed the police were reacting to press pressure.
"This is the police responding to the media pressure and not looking at what the decision is going to be, and effectively pushing the decision off to the director of public prosecutions who will come back to the same decision the police made last Friday, only we will have spent a huge amount of taxpayers' money on nothing," he said.
Meanwhile, Ms Lawson told The Mail on Sunday's Event magazine that she had "toughened up" in the past year.
She added in a statement issued to the newspaper by her publicist Mark Hutchinson: "I will survive this and move forward. I just want to focus on family life and work."

I'm firmly behind Nigella, but love this

Maybe I'm missing something but I can't see how she's benefited by reporting those girls to the police, she seems to have come off the worst.

Why?

If she looked liked a bag of spanners sans slap and came from Essex...

Wait..that's Jamie Oliver

She was trying to get two people banged up.

She must have thought they were taking financial liberties, but according to the jury they weren't. She either forgot what she gave them entitlement to, or the jury got it wrong.

And her hubby obviously said it's ok for the sisters to spend that much? 

Two people faced jail.

Not guilty and the sorrow goes to a questionable accuser.

Britain eh?

I've not followed the court case - but being a simple soul, I'm guessing there wouldn't be much to decide?   Either they were authorise to use the cards - or they weren't?    If they were authorised to use it, but they spent more than Nigella and/or Saatchi expected them too, surely that's just tough luck on them for being so naive.     I don't think betraying trust is a criminal offence yet.

Because of the way she's been treated. It wasn't her that had her hands around anyone's neck. It wasn't her that spent gawd knows what on credit cards. Like I say. I can take her or leave her but what they are doing to her is wrong 

Was it just one person who authorised the use though Kaffy? I don't know 

The hands round the neck.

Why didn't she pursue that like she did the Grillo's?

Because she would never have been in control of that one. Best that she fled with the kids 

And, at the time, hopefully the skeletons.

If the 2 weren't guilty they've received justice as everyone should who's not guilty.  As I mentioned several posts ago I've not followed the case as closely as some or as it's been reported. I honestly don't know enough about the finer details, I just find the info I've seen confusing as to who's more wrong than right.

She's never denied that she took drugs. What other skeletons were there? I dunno, maybe I don't know everything