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MEDIA PROMOTION COVERAGE Pre-Promote Coverage 14 DAILY STAR, Friday, December 6, 2013 DAILY STAR, Friday, December 6, 2013 15 £400 A MONTH TO CLEAN SILVER Don’t miss tomorrow’s BUT TV NIGELLA ONLY HOSTED... FREE 2 dinner SMURF TOY parties in FOR EVERY READER one year! ■ by PAUL ROBINS Pictures: HUMPHREY NEMAR NIGELLA Lawson GRAB YOURS told a court yes- terday Charles AT YOUR LOCAL Saatchi let her hold dinner parties just twice a year at the most. PLUS The TV chef said the couple’s£37millionman- sion had a room full of silverware that cost £400 a month to clean. But they rarely held din- ner parties at home in Eaton Square in London’s posh Belgravia because Saatchi, 70, did not like them. The Domestic Goddess, £5 OFF 53, was giving evidence for a second day in the SHOPPING AT £700,000 fraud trial of the FOR EVERY READER CONTROL: Saatchi WHEN YOU SPEND £40 IN STORE now-divorced couple’s two former assistants, sisters Elisabetta, 41, and Franc- esca Grillo, 35. Nigella told the jury: “We had dinner parties only once or twice a year in Eaton Square. I was not very happy about that. PREM STAR IS HIT “I can hardly remember a dinner party in Eaton Square. In all my time there, there were very, very few.” And in a reference to the WITH DRIVE BAN restaurant where her hus- FOOTBALL star Hatem Ben Arfa has been banned from band was pictured in June driving for six months and fined £2,680 after admitting grabbing her neck, Nigella driving offences. said: “Mr Saatchi likes to CHORES: Nigella and Grillos yesterday The 26-year-old Newcastle United ace’s Mercedes was take people out to Scott’s caught speeding twice. Although he was not driving, he restaurant.” failed to give required information about the driver on Nigella also told Isle- while she was on holiday have done her own chores one occasion, and was late worth Crown Court, west in Spain because he had but he “likes to have con- supplying the information ■ by EMMA PEARSON London, how her husband lost the TV remote and trol over every element”. in the other case. would order the assistants this made him “very an- The Grillo sisters deny Michelle Brown, defend- istrates heard France in- around, making them gry”. swindling £685,000 from ing, said his written Eng- ternational Ben Arfa was fetch him drinks and sew She revealed he would the family’s credit card to lish was “poor” and his being driven around at the buttons on his suits as march around the house fund a lavish lifestyle. system of dealing with his time due to an injury. well as clean the house. telling the sisters to clean The trial continues affairs needed to be more He apologised to the She even claimed Saatchi tiny marks off the walls. today. “robust”. Bedlington mag- court via an interpreter. FINED: Ben Arfa once phoned Francesca Nigella said she would [email protected] MEDIA PROMOTION COVERAGE Front Page Coverage MEDIA PROMOTION COVERAGE Front Page Coverage In Magazine Coverage MEDIA PROMOTION COVERAGE Front Page Coverage In Magazine Coverage MEDIA PROMOTION COVERAGE Pre-Promote Coverage Page 26 Irish Daily Mail, Saturday, December 7, 2013 Murder lawyer charged By Catherine Fegan ‘The establishment are not happy with the result in the trial. They want to muzzle us now ahead of Ra- A MAURITIAN defence law- Michaela trial defence brief ma’s report... due out next week.’ yer has accused police of ‘har- Following Mr Rutnah’s arrest on assment’ after he was arrest- Thursday, Rama Valayden was quick ed and charged in relation to to defend his colleague. ‘There is a his actions during last year’s provisionally charged over conspiracy against us,’ he said. ‘I re- iterate my request for the establish- Michaela McAreavey trial. ment of a commission of inquiry into Ravi Rutnah served as a de- the murder of Michaela Harte.’ fence counsel for Avinash Treeb- Mr Valyden is due to release a re- hoowon during the murder case, DVD evidence ‘conspiracy’ port next week into the handling of before sensationally withdrawing Couple: John and Michaela the murder investigation. The report in May 2012. Michaela and her husband John then provisionally charged. He was senting that DVD to police. I would is understood to claim that the orig- Yesterday, he was provisionally McAreavey. However, that was due to fly to London yesterday but never have had to do that if it had inal police investigation was botched charged with ‘false and malicious quickly found to be incorrect. Mauritian authorities have prevent- been disclosed to the defence team and that detectives neglected sev- denunciation’ and ‘conspiracy to Avinash Treebhoowon, 33, and ed him from leaving the country. by the prosecution, but it wasn’t. eral important aspects of the case. commit a wrongful act’. Sandip Moonea, 44, both former em- Last night, Mr Rutnah claimed he There is no case against me.’ ‘We still do not know who owns the It is understood the charges relate ployees of the Legends Hotel, were was being ‘harassed’ by the authori- Mr Rutnah said that officers had fingerprint that was found on to a DVD showing a German couple last year cleared of the murder. ties for criticising the police during informed him that his co-counsel in Micheala Harte’s sunglasses,’ said arguing at the reception of the Leg- Mr Rutnah’s home was raided on the trial. ‘It is more than a year since the case, Sanjeev Teeluckdharry and Mr Valayden. ‘I will present three ends Hotel in Mauritius on the day Thursday morning by officers from the trial,’ he said. ‘And I have been Rama Valyden, who represented main pieces of information on how that Ms McAreavey was killed. the Mauritian police’s Central persecuted ever since my client Sandip Moonea, would also be ques- they (the police) have jeopardised Mr Rutnah presented the video to Investigation Division (CID). After walked free. My colleagues, Sanjeev tioned. ‘It has been put to me that the inquiry.’ police during the trial. It was initial- being questioned, he was released and Rama, have also been harassed the three of us conspired to influ- [email protected] ly suggested the couple could be but instructed to return and he was by the police. I did my duty in pre- ence the jury,’ he said. Our tiny Christmas gift TINY Dancer Lily-Mae Morrison has been given the all-clear to spend Christmas at home after receiving emergency surgery. The five-year-old, who has stage-four neuroblastoma, suf- fered a setback last month when doctors discovered a hole in her bowel. She became so weak she lost the ability to walk or talk, and had to be fed through a tube, leading her parents to fear she would be confined to hospital FREE over Christmas. However, she returned home this week after successfully undergoing an operation at SMURFS MOVIE Crumlin children’s hospital in Dublin. Her mother Judith Sibley said: ‘Lily-Mae is so brave and inspir- ing. She’s got through this lat- est setback and thankfully she’s now back home with us for Christmas. She’s got her appe- TOY FIGURES tite back. ‘Most of all we want her to have a magical time this Christ- mas, doing all the wonderful things we recently feared she She’s back: wouldn’t get to do.’ Lily-Mae Lily-Mae, from Galway, has Morrison, been called Tiny Dancer after is home for well-wishers recorded a hit Christmas version of the Elton John song of the same name to raise money for her treatment. Fiver Friday McGeever trial drums up a set for March roaring trade of next year SHOPS and shoppers got a pre-Christ- KEVIN McGeever, the developer mas boost yesterday as Fiver Friday accused of staging his own abduction, swung into action across the country. is to face trial next year. The initiative of Joe Duffy’s Liveline The 69-year-old faces charges of radio show saw hundreds of small busi- making a false complaint to gardaí nesses and shops offer their wares for just €5. And shoppers took up the vari- and wasting Garda time relating to a ous offers in their droves. period last year when he went Jim Smith, owner of the Railway Vet- missing. erinary Clinic in Loughrea, Co. Galway, The property developer claimed he saw a five-fold increase in business with had been kidnapped and held between his deal to microchip pets for €5, a serv- May 27, 2012, and January 29, 2013 ice that usually costs €25. At Galway Circuit Court yesterday, ‘From the good-will factor, you get it Judge Rory McCabe was told that case back in spades. People appreciate it,’ would take up to three days to hear he said. ‘It has certainly opened our eyes that when it goes ahead in March 2014. people, with the economic climate, will A barrister for Mr McGeever made DETAILS IN TOMORROW’S go for bargains.’ an application for a Section 56 order Elaine Fiddy opened her business a requesting the State to furnish the mere three days ago, just in time to defence with a copy of any recordings take advantage of Fiver Friday. of the Garda questioning of Mr With the paint barely dry on the walls McGeever to be handed over. of River Beauty in Blanchardstown, in Mr McGeever, of Nirvana, Ballywinna, Dublin, business was booming for Elaine and her three staff, as women Craughwell, Co.

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