Nigella Lawson’s husband cautioned by police for assault

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Photographs of Nigella Lawson arguing with her husband Charles Saatchi in a London restaurant on June 9 have prompted the police to investigate. Photo: YouTube screengrab

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LONDON — Former advertising tycoon Charles Saatchi has accepted a caution for assault by the police yesterday (June 17), after photographs of him placing his hands around the neck of his wife, Nigella Lawson, caused a public outcry.

Saatchi, 70, had earlier downplayed photographs in which he is shown grabbing his wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, around the neck, saying it was just a “playful tiff”.

The millionaire art collector was interviewed at the Charing Cross police station in central London.

“Officers from the Community Safety Unit at Westminster were aware of the Sunday People article which was published on 16 June and carried out an investigation,” a Metropolitan Police spokesperson said.

“This afternoon a 70-year-old man voluntarily attended a central London police station and accepted a caution for assault.”

Britain’s Sunday People newspaper published photographs of Mr Saatchi with his hands around his wife’s neck, and with her in tears, while they were having dinner on the terrace of a London restaurant.

The multimillionaire art collector was also photographed pinching 53-year-old Lawson’s nose before walking away from a seafood restaurant in upmarket Mayfair on June 9.

Saatchi, who writes a column for The Evening Standard, told the newspaper that he recognised the impact of the pictures but said they conveyed the wrong impression.

“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 emphasise my point,” he said.

“There was no grip. It was a playful tiff. The pictures are horrific but give a far more drastic and violent impression of what took place. Nigella’s tears were because we both hate arguing, not because she had been hurt.”

He said the couple made up by the time they reached home. But he acknowledged that Lawson had moved out, saying this was for her privacy.

“The paparazzi were congregated outside our house after the story broke yesterday morning, so I told Nigella to take the kids ‘til the dust settled,” he explained.

Lawson, known for her home cooking TV shows and cookbooks, could not immediately be reached for comment.

Police told reporters that they were examining the images which were taken by a freelance photographer, but they had not received any complaints about the argument.

Lawson, the daughter of the former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson, married Saatchi in 2003 after her first husband, journalist John Diamond, died of throat cancer. REUTERS

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