Tulisa Cleared Of Drug Charge As Trial Collapses
Former X Factor judge seen grinning in the dock as she is formally discharged...
Lucy BaconTulisa has been cleared this morning of a drugs charge, as a judge declared the case has collapsed.
Southwark Crown Court heard that there were "strong grounds to believe" that The Sun's undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood had "lied" at an earlier hearing.
"There are strong ground for believing Mr Mahmood told me lies," the judge told jury.
"Where there has been some aspect of the investigation or prosecution of a crime which is tainted in some way by serious misconduct to the point that the integrity of the court would be compromised by allowing the trial to go ahead, then the court has no alternative but to say “this case must go no further”, he said.
Reading a statement outside the court, Tulisa said: "Mahmood has now been exposed by my lawyers openly lying to the judge and jury. These lies were told to stop crucial evidence going before the jury. This evidence shows that I told Mahmood's long-standing driver that I disapproved of drugs, which is the truth."
After all you've done, I'm not over you yet
I know your heart is out the door
Let me grab my feelings from the floor
With everything said, and I'll get over you yeah
I'm just playing
Oh baby why don't you just please come back
Why don't you just please come back
Why don't you just please come back
I'm beggin'
Baby boy, you don't have to be like that
We don't have to be like that
You don't have to be like that
Whoah
I can't believe we're through
Packed bags a lot of broken glass
What a drag used to love the sight of you
Now I can't stand the sight of you
Whoah
I can't believe you're gone, I'm so hurt
All the love we had, blank stare like you forgot
I used to love the sight of you
Now I can't stand the sight of you
Can't believe we're through
Can't believe we're through
That amazing smile has been lost for a while
Now everything's a mess
Still not one regret
That heart of gold, when I ask where it's gone you say I don't know
Hey I'm not finished yet
You are my biggest regret, stop playing
Oh baby why don't you just please come back
Why don't you just please come back
Why don't you just please come back
I'm beggin'
Baby boy, you don't have to be like that
We don't have to be like that
You don't have to be like that
Whoaahh
I can't believe we're through
Packed bags a lot of broken glass
What a drag, used to love the sight of you
Now I can't stand the sight of you
Whoah
I can't believe you're gone, I'm so hurt
All the love we had, blanks stare like you forgot
I used to love the sight of you
Now I can't stand the sight of you
Can't believe we're through
I can't believe it's over baby
The journey in my heart is killing me
Breaking me unfaithfully
The sight is burning my eyes
I thought you would be forever babe
But forever has turned to never babe
How if something good go so bad, so quick, so fast
Do it just like that
Yeah boy I can't believe we're through
The end!
She went on to add: "As someone who has had my life ruined for the last year I strongly believe that this type of entrapment should not be allowed to happen to anyone."
"I have not been able to work for a year, and I am now looking forward to resuming my career."
Contostavlos had pleaded not guilty to the supply of class A drugs.
The singer was accused of boasting that she cold organise cocaine for a reporter, and put him in touch with Mike GLC who supplied the drug.
Mahmood told the singer he could get her a role in a Hollywood film with Leonardo DiCaprio if she would broker the deal.
Michael Coombs', also known as Mike GLC, case has also been halted, despite his guilty plea on the opening day of trial.
'Mr Coombs plea of guilty does not, and cannot, wipe out the improper conduct which has led me to end this case. 'Just as the case cannot properly proceed against Miss Contostavlos, so also it cannot proceed properly against him'.
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