Police have said they are reviewing Nigella Lawson’s admission in court that she took drugs.
Lawson said she had taken the drug with her late husband John Diamond when he found out he had terminal cancer, and again in July 2012 when she claimed to have been ‘subjected to intimate terrorism’ by her former husband Charles Saatchi.
Scotland Yard said on Friday they would not look into the issue at this stage, but would review the case if new evidence came to light.
However, a statement released by the force last night said a ‘specialist team from the Metropolitan Police Service will examine the evidence emerging as part of a review into this matter’.
The statement also said the admission made by the 53-year-old cook ‘did not by themselves provide sufficient evidence to bring charges’.
It added: ‘On that basis therefore, and in absence of any other corroboration, there is no imminent prospect of a prosecution being mounted.’
During the trial, it emerged Mr Saatchi had suggested in an email that Ms Lawson’s drug use meant she allowed their former assistants to spend as much money as they liked.
The pair, Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo were found not guilty of defrauding their former employees on Friday.
