For even the most amateur of art-lovers the signature styles of the big-name art stars are easy
Posted in General on 01. Sep, 2010
For even the most amateur of art-lovers, the signature styles of the big-name art stars are easy to spot If it’s Damien Hirst it must be dead animals or spots If there’s a Chris Ofili, there should be elephant dung. Referring to claims that during a sex game ice-cubes had been rolled across his body Mrs Sheridan said: “You are like a monkey. Anybody rolling an ice cube round your body would end up with a hairball in their throat.”Mrs Sheridan said she believed that the allegations against her husband were part of a political plot to undermine his leadership of the Scottish Socialists.Mrs Sheridan, who was accused by Michael Jones QC for the newspaper of being a “frustrated actress”, had to stifle tears as she paid a tribute to her husband: “I have been proud of you many times but I have never, never been more proud of you than I have the last four weeks in this court.”The hearing continues.. She added that on one of the occasions her husband was supposed to have been involved in group sex he was actually at a charity event with the First Minister Jack McConnell.Danish-born Ms Trolle, 31, previously told the court she had a four-year relationship with Mr Sheridan, which included a threesome with the MSP and his brother-in-law, Andrew McFarlane, and a visit to a Manchester swingers’ club.When Mr Sheridan asked his wife if she knew Ms Trolle she replied in clipped tones: “Yes, I know her very well.” She claimed the last time they met at an SSP conference, after the News of the World’s stories in November 2004, Ms Trolle had appeared sympathetic.Mrs Sheridan claimed Ms Trolle had told her then that the News of the World had offered money to say she had an affair with Mr Sheridan – a suggestion Ms Trolle has denied.At least twice Mrs Sheridan had to compose herself as she recalled the stress she had been under while pregnant and having to deal with the allegations.She also raised laughs when she described herself as a “demanding person”, who made sure her husband spent weekends at their house in Cardonald, Glasgow, and described Mr Sheridan as a gorilla. Mrs Sheridan said she had checked her diaries, his diaries and her company rosters for the time the affairs were supposed to have taken place and was convinced nothing could have happened on many of the dates.She also said that far from being a party animal her husband was a “boring” man, who preferred to play scrabble and entertain at home rather than go out.When they weren’t at home said Mrs Sheridan, the couple frequently attended official functions. “It’s the worst thing a woman can be told; that another woman has been in your home, in your bed with your man,” she said.”I believe you,” said Mrs Sheridan, looking directly at her husband, before adding that she had not just taken his word for it. You’d be in the Clyde and I would be in court for murder.”Earlier Mrs Sheridan, who was pregnant with her first child when the allegations first appeared in the News of the World in 2004, said she had felt “sick to the pit of my stomach” over claims her husband had slept with the former Socialist Scottish Party (SSP) member Katrine Trolle, in their home.
Dressed in a light-grey trouser suit, the tanned 42-year-old played nervously with the rings on her perfectly manicured fingers as she brought laughter and tears to the packed Court of Session in Edinburgh.
On day 19 of a £200,000 defamation action against the News of the World Mrs Sheridan was the last witness to be called by her husband, who has represented himself since sacking his legal team midway through.”I appreciate this is an unusual situation and we know each other by first name, but for the purposes of the court, I’m going to refer to you as Mrs Sheridan,” said the 42-year-old MSP for Glasgow as he asked his wife to state her full name, age, address and occupation.Referring to himself in the third person Mr Sheridan, a teetotaller, asked his wife whether she believed any of the allegations – including that he led a secret life as champagne-drinking, cocaine-snorting, adulterer with a passion for kinky group sex involving spanking, torture and bisexuality.Mrs Sheridan, who has known the MSP since they were 14, said she thought the claims were ridiculous, and drew laughter when she claimed that if she thought they were true she would have killed him herself “There’s no way I would be here,” she said “And neither would you be. The final amount of damages will be clarified after continuing argument in court.. It was the star turn everyone had been waiting for. Gail Sheridan, the glamorous flight attendant wife of the former Scottish Socialist leader Tommy Sheridan, went into court yesterday to defend her husband over allegations he cheated on her at cocaine-fuelled group sex parties. Deutsche Bank, which denied breach of statutory duty or that she was bullied, relied on her pre-existing vulnerability to mental illness. She had a nervous breakdown in November 2000 and was admitted to hospital on suicide watch.
In April that year she resumed full-time work but suffered a relapse in October. Her job was kept open for her until September 2003 when her employment was terminated. It was agreed by the medical experts on both sides that she developed a major depressive disorder but there was disagreement about its cause. She denied that she had done anything to justify the behaviour or that she had “talked down” to the women. Miss Green, 36, of Manchester Road, Tower Hamlets, east London, was twice promoted before she received stress counselling, paid for by the company, in March 2000, and assertiveness training.
She believed she was targeted for “mobbing” by four women: Valerie Alexander, manager of the insurance division; her personal assistant, Fiona Gregg; telephone directory administrator Daniella Dolbear; and Jenny Dixon, PA to department head Richard Elliston. Miss Green, who worked in the firm’s secretariat division between October 1997 and October 2001, said she suffered psychiatric injury because of “offensive, abusive, intimidating, denigrating, bullying, humiliating, patronising, infantile and insulting words and behaviour”. He said the behaviour amounted to “a deliberate and concerted campaign of bullying within the ordinary meaning of that term”. He awarded her £35,000 for pain and suffering, £25,000 in respect of her disadvantage on the labour market, £128,000 for past loss of earnings and about £640,000 for future loss of earnings including pension.
The bank will also have to pay her legal costs, with an interim payment of £350,000. He was shot by another member of his unit, the 2 Royal Tank Regiment, who had opened fire with an L94 machine gun in an attempt to protect him.An Iraqi civilian, Zaher Zaher, was also shot and killed during the incident.The report said: “The fact that there are inadequate written procedures or caveats regarding very close range engagements with the L94 coaxial machine gun led to [the gunner] making an incorrect assessment as to the appropriateness of using this weapon system to engage Mr Zaher.”. The tank commander, from Shipley, West Yorkshire, had originally been issued with enhanced body armour but it was withdrawn on 20 March 2003 – four days before his death – due to shortages. After his death, Mrs Roberts released an audio diary in which he had called supplies to soldiers in Iraq “a joke”.The report said: “Had Sgt Roberts been wearing correctly fitting and fitted ECBA when this incident unfolded, he would not have been fatally injured.”The report also highlighted other failures which contributed to his death, but the identity of those involved were redacted from the published document.Sgt Roberts was killed at Az Zubayr, near Basra, on 24 March 2003 after troops became involved in a disturbance.