Nigella Lawson is quoted as saying she is 'unsurprised' by the verdict. Personally I am a bit surprised. I expected the court to take a dim view of the unbelievably cynical 'defence', consisting essentially of an attempt to use private information to smear the Saatchis, and Nigella Lawson in particular, along with her children. Of course I know courts tend to take a dim view of recreational drug use too, and at least one very damaging email from the choleric Charles Saatchi was read out in court. In the event, po-faced superstitious disapproval of drug taking, which is a private matter, seems to have trumped any distaste the court may have felt for the behaviour of the defendants.
What a nasty bunch though, all of them actually except Ms Lawson's poor children. Money don't bring happiness innit?
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