The trial of Tulisa Contostavlos over drugs allegations has collapsed, Press Gazette reports.
The singer was accused of boasting that she could “sort out” cocaine for a journalist and put him in touch with her rapper friend Mike GLC, who supplied the Class A drug.
Undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood, dubbed the “Fake Sheikh”, posed as a wealthy film producer called Samir Khan when he met the former X Factor judge at a string of luxury hotels and restaurants, jurors at London’s Southwark Crown Court heard.
Contostavlos vehemently denied brokering the deal, which was exposed in the Sun on Sunday newspaper last June.
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Today judge Alistair McCreath told the jury that the case “cannot go any further” because there were “strong grounds to believe” that Mahmood had “lied” at a hearing before the trial started.
After hearing the news, Contostavlos urged police to investigate Mahmood and “put an end to his deceits”.
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