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R v Elisabetta Grillo and Francesca Grillo〔R for ''Regina'', Latin for "queen": the Crown Prosecution Service acts in the name of the Crown.〕 was the trial of two Italian sisters, Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo at Isleworth Crown Court. The defendants, former personal assistants to Nigella Lawson and her ex-husband Charles Saatchi, were accused of fraudulently using the credit cards of Saatchi's private company〔Gordon Rayner ("Nigella Lawson allegedly took drugs every day for a decade, court told" ), telegraph.co.uk, 26 November 2013〕 between January 2008 and December 2012.〔Ian Johnston ("Charles Saatchi believes his ex-wife Nigella Lawson is a ‘habitual criminal’, court hears" ), ''The Independent'', 27 November 2013〕 In 2013, the sisters pleaded not guilty to the charges made against them〔("Nigella Lawson PAs spent '£685,000 living the high-life'" ), ITV News, 27 November 2013〕 and were found not guilty. ==Background== Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson married in 2003. Lawson was previously married to the journalist John Diamond until his death in 2001; Lawson and Diamond had two children together.〔 In June 2013, photographs emerged of Saatchi grasping Lawson around the throat at a dinner table outside a Mayfair restaurant. Saatchi accepted a conditional caution for assault from the police over the incident. He announced his intention to divorce Lawson, stating that the couple had "become estranged and drifted apart".〔("Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson to divorce" ), BBC News, 7 July 2013.〕 Lawson made no public comment;〔 however, Lawson filed for divorce citing ongoing unreasonable behaviour. On 31 July 2013, Saatchi and Lawson were granted a decree nisi effectively ending their 10-year marriage with court documents suggesting that the two had already arrived at a private financial settlement.〔 Elisabetta Grillo was hired by Lawson as her personal assistant and nanny in 1999, during her marriage to Diamond.〔http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2514902/Nigella-Lawson-Charles-Saatchis-accountant-didnt-bother-couple-assistants-trivial-credit-card-bills.html〕 Four years later, after Lawson married Saatchi, the couple hired her sister, Francesca, to serve as an additional personal assistant.〔 Elisabetta and Francesca were on salaries of £25,000 and £28,000 per annum, respectively.〔 The sisters were also housed for free by their employers.〔 As part of their duties, the sisters were expected to make certain purchases on behalf of their employers; they were therefore given Coutts credit cards in their own names on Saatchi's Conarco Partnership company account.〔 The Grillos were accused of misusing the credit cards to make personal purchases worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. Lawson and Saatchi were originally willing to continue employing the Grillos if the women could pay back the money, but then later decided to involve the police when the matter was not resolved.〔 The two women were arrested in August 2012. The Grillo Sisters hired criminal defence firm Janes Solicitors to represent them. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「R v Grillo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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