Harry Redknapp

[daftgrandad]

Great news Harry found not guilty on both counts,in tax evasion trial.

[craft1948]

Brilliant dg.......:-)

[bednobs]

that man is coated in teflon

[sunny-dave]

↑ ↑ I think triggs forgot to add 'allegedly' ;=) ↑ ↑

[mccfluff]

how the fook did he get away with that!

[craft1948]

So that's Rednapp 2 tax man 0..................if they go for him again it'll start looking like harrassment.

[sunny-dave]

I'm more concerned about how somebody with his (self admitted) inability to write can produce a regular newspaper column ....

... ah, but it is for the Sun, so I think I've just sort of answered my own question

[Booldawg]

Unfortunately his dog got 6 years though :-(

[joggerjayne]

Yay

Although he did get off by claiming that he was a bit of a thicko who didn't understand anything about money or figures or business or investment.

Which presumably takes him out of the frame as a future England manager.

Or was he just making up the bit about being really naive?

[mccfluff]

do you think if i ever get charged with tax evasion i can use all my typos to prove i can't read, write or manage my own accounts?

[jackthehat]

He didn't 'get off' with anything. That assumes that he was guilty and has somehow managed to hoodwink the court.

He was found 'not guilty'.

His defence that he is functionally illiterate was to illustrate that any attempt to mastermind an elaborate fraud would have been beyond his abilities.
Being illiterate does not mean that he is not able to do his job very well indeed. His present and past successes are testament to that.

HMRC were not able to press their case that he is a crook and has 'stolen from the public purse'.

[DTCwordfan]

Sounds like he is an ideal candidate for the England coach job - that could be available this afternoon.

[Grandma_Yiddo]

Triffic for 'arry and for justice. Also for the loyal supporters of T.H.F.C.

[Zhukov]

Hats off to Harry!.. :-)

[mccfluff]

what was the money he recived then?

[jackthehat]

The newspapers have fudged this a bit.
He wasn't charged with c.£190,000 worth of tax evasion....he was charged with evading tax 'on' £190,000. Quite a difference.

I assume that he claimed the money in question was either a) not liable to tax in the first place, or b) was the balance of a larger figure on which he 'had' paid tax.

[Brenden]

And he could still be in line as England manager - I am up for that.

[jackthehat]

We can all avoid tax, RH.

It is 'evading' it which is illegal.

HMRC couldn't persuade the jury that he was guilty of 'evasion'. I think we have to accept that verdict.

[mccfluff]

but what was the money for

was it for services rendered?