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A judge, another judge, a cleaner, a video = blackmail

Thursday 21 September 2006 at 7:33 am | In News | Post Comment

A 37-year-old Brazilian cleaner is on trial at the Old Bailey for allegedly attempting to blackmail a judge who is alleged to have had an affair with another judge. Their names have been protected and are known only as Judges J and I.

It appears that the judges were once live-in lovers. Judge I is male; Judge J is female. The plot thickens when we discover that the 37-year-old Brazilian as well as being the cleaner was also having an affair with Judge I, and the cleaner did not have a work permit, to boot.  £20,000 was mentioned.  There appears to be a video of certain goings on.
There is no law to be learnt here, and apart from being salacious the interest in the story is the way some judges live and also that someone in the judiciary knows how to use a video camera.

News item here.