Saatchi admits assault on wife Nigella Lawson

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCwkYHZo7PVSbM3oGqfijvHdKsvDfsbPyO6ZEHu38LrkAapsn_NxZb5qhm9pqBNWVmZ_wjiT1y0hVAHR6Fke1lBz9Bex6lCSiB-gLT3VFkMoG-limTeEOZXCEsnTfkz6ghXqXSPkYNNJk/s1600/Saatchi+admits+assault+on+wife+Nigella+Lawson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Saatchi admits assault on wife Nigella Lawson image" border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCwkYHZo7PVSbM3oGqfijvHdKsvDfsbPyO6ZEHu38LrkAapsn_NxZb5qhm9pqBNWVmZ_wjiT1y0hVAHR6Fke1lBz9Bex6lCSiB-gLT3VFkMoG-limTeEOZXCEsnTfkz6ghXqXSPkYNNJk/s400/Saatchi+admits+assault+on+wife+Nigella+Lawson.jpg" title="Saatchi admits assault on wife Nigella Lawson image" width="400" /></a></div> <h1 class="headline" id="yui_3_8_1_1_1371568714836_257" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 1.21em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span class="entry-title">Saatchi admits assault on wife Nigella Lawson</span></h1> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <span class="entry-title">Saatchi admits assault on wife Nigella Lawson</span></h3> <div> <span class="entry-title">Saatchi admits assault on wife Nigella Lawson</span></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <span class="entry-title"><br /></span></div> <div> <span class="entry-title"></span><br /> <div> <span class="entry-title">LONDON (AP) — Prominent British art collector Charles Saatchi has admitted assault and accepted a police caution after published photos showed him grasping the throat of his wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson.</span></div> <span class="entry-title"> <div> In Tuesday's editions, The London Evening Standard newspaper quoted him as saying that he had approached police to discuss the incident after seeking legal advice.</div> <div> "Although Nigella made no complaint I volunteered to go to Charing Cross (police) station and take a police caution after a discussion with my lawyer because I thought it was better than the alternative of this hanging over all of us for months," he told the newspaper, where he is also a columnist. He said the questioning took four hours.</div> <div> Tabloid newspapers this week published photos of the incident, which happened June 9 in a posh London restaurant.</div> <div> Saatchi, 70, earlier had characterized the incident as a "playful tiff" during an intense debate about the couple's children.</div> <div> Lawson, 53, is a well-known TV presenter and chef whose cookbooks are best-sellers in Britain and the United States.</div> <div> Under British law, a caution is a formal warning given to someone who admits the offense. It carries no penalty, but it can be used as evidence of bad character if a person is later prosecuted for a different crime.</div> <div> Saatchi had told the Evening Standard newspaper Monday that the photos made the altercation look worse than it was.</div> <div> Saatchi said "the pictures are horrific but give a far more drastic and violent impression of what took place."</div> <div> "About a week ago, we were sitting outside a restaurant having an intense debate about the children, and I held Nigella's neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasize my point," he was quoted as saying. "There was no grip, it was a playful tiff."</div> <div> Saatchi also told the paper the couple "had made up by the time we were home.</div> <div> "The paparazzi were congregated outside our house after the story broke yesterday morning, so I told Nigella to take the kids off till the dust settled."</div> </span></div> </div>

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