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27/07/2007
Brazilian cleaner cleared of judge blackmail
A Brazilian cleaner has been cleared of charges that she stole two sex videos from a male judge and blackmailed a female judge.
Roselane Driza, 37, of Birchanger Road in South Norwood, south London, was sentenced to 33 months in prison last October after being convicted of blackmail and theft.
She was found guilty of stealing videos from Judge Mohammed Ilyas Khan and blackmailing a female judge, known only as Judge J, for £20,000. However, she was cleared of blackmailing Judge Khan, who she had an affair with and with whom she was living with until her arrest.
Miss Driza, who had denied the charges, later won an appeal against her convictions. She had been due to face a retrial at the Old Bailey in a couple of weeks, but at a pre-trial hearing at the Old Bailey on Friday, Judge Martin Stephens was told that the Crown Prosecution Service had decided not to proceed with the case, due to both judges being too ill to testify.
Speaking outside the Old Bailey on Friday, Miss Driza told reporters: "Justice has been done. I am very happy and very proud of God."
(KMcA/SP)
Roselane Driza, 37, of Birchanger Road in South Norwood, south London, was sentenced to 33 months in prison last October after being convicted of blackmail and theft.
She was found guilty of stealing videos from Judge Mohammed Ilyas Khan and blackmailing a female judge, known only as Judge J, for £20,000. However, she was cleared of blackmailing Judge Khan, who she had an affair with and with whom she was living with until her arrest.
Miss Driza, who had denied the charges, later won an appeal against her convictions. She had been due to face a retrial at the Old Bailey in a couple of weeks, but at a pre-trial hearing at the Old Bailey on Friday, Judge Martin Stephens was told that the Crown Prosecution Service had decided not to proceed with the case, due to both judges being too ill to testify.
Speaking outside the Old Bailey on Friday, Miss Driza told reporters: "Justice has been done. I am very happy and very proud of God."
(KMcA/SP)
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