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| March 10, 2007 |
| No charges over Big Brother row |
No criminal charges will be brought in connection with the Big Brother racism row, Hertfordshire Police has said.
The Crown Prosecution Service has decided that what occurred was "clearly offensive" but "not criminal".
The inquiry centred on a series of clashes between Shilpa Shetty and three other housemates - Jade Goody, Jo O'Meara and Danielle Lloyd. The row sparked a diplomatic incident following the treatment of Shetty, who went on to win the Channel 4 show.
The police force said programme-makers Endemol and Channel 4 had "declined to co-operate" with their requests for unedited footage from the programme. But the constabulary decided it was not in the public interest to make arrests or pursue footage through the courts.
'Further footage'
A Channel 4 spokesman said: "In response to Herfordshire Police's statement issued today, Channel 4 was in an ongoing dialogue with the police and provided them with access to many hours of broadcast programmes.
"A substantial amount of further footage was requested and our policy, consistent with that of all broadcasters, is to require the police to obtain a court order before such material is handed over," he added.
The police said they wanted to speak to six of the former housemates but Goody and her mother, Jackiey Budden, who also appeared in the show, declined.
One of those who was interviewed was model Danielle Lloyd, who asked to meet the police herself.
"During the interviews, everybody stated that they had not witnessed or perceived they were a victim of any racist behaviour," the police statement said. |
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