Charles Saatchi accepts police caution for assault on Nigella Lawson

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Charles Saatchi was on Monday cautioned for assault after a police investigation was sparked by the emergence of pictures showing him repeatedly grabbing his wife by the throat in a restaurant.

The multimillionaire art collector had sought to downplay the images showing him grabbing Nigella Lawson around the neck, claiming that he was "attempting to emphasise my point".

However, the Metropolitan police said last night that a 70-year-old man voluntarily attended a central London police station in the afternoon and accepted a caution for assault after an investigation by the community support unit at Westminster.

A spokesman said police were aware of an article published at the weekend in the Sunday People, which included several pictures showing Saatchi with his hand around Lawson's neck as they sat outside Scott's restaurant in Mayfair.

On one occasion, he raised a second hand towards her throat and on another pinched or grabbed her nose. She appeared upset and left the restaurant in tears.

Saatchi said the pictures showed a "playful tiff".

full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/18/saatchi-lawson-police-caution-assault

1. Wow, at age 70 he still thinks grabbing someone by the neck emphasizes his point? How literate is this Saatchi guy?
2. "Playful tiff"? Bull. Fucking. God. Damn. Shit. If so, she wouldn't have walked out of the restaurant in tears.
3. Does this guy think he's so MANLY and BEASTY and STRONG doing this shit in public?

Also translating some British English used in this article: Sunday People doesn't refer to the magazine but rather a weekly feature in the UK tabloid Daily Mirror (famous on DU for its Nov. 4, 2004 cover depicting George W. Bush with the headline, "How Could (59 Million) people be so DUMB?" of course with the exact number of Bush votes in election 2004 replacing the &quot 59 million)&quot . And Wikipedia defines police caution: "a formal alternative to prosecution in minor cases, administered by the police and other law enforcement agencies in England and Wales, and in Hong Kong. It is commonly used to resolve cases where full prosecution is not seen as the most appropriate solution."

It may be disappointing he doesn't get a real sentence, but at least he got a whole bunch of public shaming for this because of the photos!

[Loudly]

1. Cautioning wrongdoers is a very civilized alternative to prosecution.

Nigella can still divorce him and sue him for assault if she wants.

[Warpy]

2. Unfortuately, she'll get most of the shaming

for continuing to live with the dirtbag even though she's got plenty of money and could "easily" get free, unlike poorer women with young children.

This shaming will be heaped on her by ignorant people who don't realize the kind of gaslighting and systematic social isolation she's been subjected to for years.

I hope the photos are the last straw and she does find the strength to leave. Her life will probably depend on it.

[okaawhatever]

3. Well the English have an interesting way of dealing with crime. I'm quite certain they told

him in the sternest of voices they were "miffed". Second offense is "peeved".

[madrchsod]

4. i guess that`s a millionaires penalty

i fell "in love" with her the first time i watched her cooking show.....

i hope she dumps his ass...

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. The Sunday People is a separate tabloid newspaper, published by the same company as the Mirror

but with a different staff - it isn't a 'feature'. But they don't give it a separate web URL:

A couple of weeks ago I asked whether there was any point to the continued publication of the Sunday People.

Ever since – and I know it's not because of what I wrote – the paper has been coming up with must-read stories (see here and here).
...
The major beneficiary should be the People, the paper that many members of the public may well have bought or read yesterday for the first time in years, or possibly for the first time ever.

However, an Irish radio station that interviewed me about the matter this morning, and had seen the story only on the net, spoke of it being published by the Sunday Mirror because the People has no separate website.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/jun/17/nigellalawson-thepeople

There is also a Sunday Mirror, which is the direct Sunday counterpart to the Daily Mirror. The People cover politics less than the Mirror - more celebrity news.