London: British celebrity chef Nigella Lawson faces a police probe into claims of cocaine use which emerged during her personal assistants’ fraud trial after a U-turn by Scotland Yard, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
Italian sisters Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo were cleared on Friday of fraudulently spending 6,85,000 ($1.12 million, 8,20,000 euros) on a company credit card owned by Ms Laws-on’s then-husband, the millionaire art collector Charles Saatchi.
The assistants claimed Ms Lawson had allowed them to spend thousands of pounds on designer handbags, first-class flights and other luxuries if they kept quiet about her cocaine use.
Following the verdict, London’s Metropolitan Police said they would not be investigating allegations of drug use by the 53-year-old. But Commander Stephen Watson told the Telegraph that he didn't think “the full colour of the Metropolitan Police Service’s position was conveyed in that statement”.
“We will use specialist resources from within the police to examine all the evidence which emerged as part of a review into this matter,” he said. “Once that review is included, presumably in conjunction with Crown Prosecution Service, we will determine a way forward.”
