UK News 29-08-2001 Review of the Year: Christine Hamilton: Clearly Not A Banana who: Christine Hamilton what: To continue civil action against accusers as police confirm they will not press criminal charges where: LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: "I said if they charged me, I was a banana," said Christine Hamilton yesterday after she and her husband were cleared of sex-attack allegations made by 28-year-old Nadine Milroy-Sloan. "I`m clearly not a banana. This is wonderful, wonderful news." Ms Milroy-Sloane, a trainee lecturer and mother of four from Grimsby, claimed "that the Hamiltons had subjected her to lewd sexual acts while she was being raped by another man at a flat in Ilford, east London," explains The Guardian. Yesterday, the police released a statement to say that they had found "no evidence to link the Hamiltons to this case". Mrs Hamilton, wife of the bankrupt former Tory minister, said yesterday that she had "no feelings" about Ms Milroy-Sloane, reserving her ire for pulicist Max Clifford, who acted as an adviser when the story was sold to the News of the World. "I think my husband described him as lower than vermin," said Christine Hamilton yesterday, "and I would concur with that." "The police are still examining allegations against Barry Lehaney, 61," says The Times, "a former financial adviser, who is alleged to have raped Ms Milroy-Sloan in his Ilford flat on May 5." [... more]

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