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So when Naomi Campbell gave the present of a pouch of pebbles to charity, what she actually did was to give it to Jeremy Ratcliffe, who was also at the party and worked for the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund. Miss C will of course put on her 'Don't blame me I'm stupid face' and claim that no one told her it was illegal to have rough diamonds without a licence and that her only legal option was to hand them over to the police. Mr Ratcliffe was well aware of the law and for some reason decided that, although he didn't want to involve the charity, he would nonetheless hold on to the diamonds, illegally. Just in case the law changed maybe.

After Miss C's testimony yesterday Ratcliffe got a visit from the forces of law'n'order and the diamonds, or diamonds resembling the originals anyway, are now in the possession of the police.

If this is starting to all sound a bit pointless to you, imagine what it must be like to be part of the prosecution team. They, after all, must be wondering why, if all Campbell had to say was what was in her evidence, did she not want to appear at the court? She says that being forced to appear has put her and her family in the firing line, and she knows this because she looked Charles Taylor up on the internet after she was first approached and found out that he wasn't a nice man. What exactly was it in her testimony that would have put her in the firing line? There are other witnesses who are really putting themselves in the firing line, Campbell said nothing of any use to the prosecution. So what was she afraid of?

And why, come to that, did she have a 'special adviser', Lord McDonald - the former Director of Public Prosecutions in Britain - on standby in the courtroom to help her out if she...well... if she what? The prosecution must be thinking right now that there's something they didn't ask that they should have.

I know I am.