That is a clearly reprehensible state of affairs.”In its ruling yesterday, the commission said: “Any newspapers entering into contracts in the future must ensure in an explicit manner in the contract that no money is payable dependent on the outcome of a criminal trial.” The News of the World has revised its procedures on that point to avoidambiguities arising in future.. Glitter was acquitted on the indecent assault charges, but found guilty on charges relating to child pornography.In his summing up of the trial in November last year, Mr Justice Butterfield told the jury: “Here is a witness who first made public her allegations of sex abuse in return for the payment of £10,000 and who stands to make another £25,000 if you convict the defendant on any of the charges. The Press Complaints Commission censured the News of the World yesterday over its payment to the key witness in the trial of Gary Glitter for indecent assault.
Allison Brown’s testimony against the singer was a crucial part of the trial against him for alleged indecent assault on her. He’s found a niche in the beautiful-woman market and has exploited it to the max May Claudia enjoy ever-increasing returns.. The Press Complaints Commission censured the News of the World yesterday over its payment to the key witness in the trial of Gary Glitter for indecent assault. And fashion girls like that.They are surrounded by queens – designers, stylists, make-up artists and hairdressers – and hot-blooded testosterone might make these fillies bolt for the stable door.How nice it must be to find a man who cares about his flicks as much as they do (Tim has his hair done at Michael John), and who gets aroused at the sight of a Gucci baby-doll nightie.My friend’s right Tim is a good businessman. Along with Robert Hanson, the seriously rich ex-eligible bachelor now engaged to model Sophie Anderton, Jefferies has that effete Englishness which makes him look, well, gay.

He’s not as rich as people think he is but he’s no fool.”And finally, Tim’s trump card. No wonder the girls are happy to queue up to be arm candy for Mr Nice.In fact nobody’s got a bad word to say for him. “A lovely man,” says a male friend of mine who knows Tim socially “He’s clever with business and has hung on to his money. And there’s something quaint and old-fashioned about his inheritance.

Green Shield Stamps are up there with Hovis and PG Tips in the nostalgia stakes. Tim has “ah, bless” written all over him.And in a world of dysfunctional pop stars and self-obsessed actors, perhaps Tim’s niceness is a breath of fresh air. Who needs wit if it comes with five mistresses and a school-girl fetish? He’s sweet, he smiles, his body language is protective. All the lovely ladies who have been dumped – and there must have been some sizeable egos between them – have had nothing but good things to say. Kylie was “distraught”, Elle was “sad”, but there are no retributions Even Koo keeps in touch. He came away from the £8,000-a-year Rudolf Steiner school with just two O-levels, and when he inherited his dosh, Tim was floundering as a shelf-packer in a hi-fi shop in East Grinstead.No, Tim is a success because he is a gentleman. There’s a lot of speculation about his financial status, and reports suggest that he is a guest rather than a host at the world’s swishest parties.

Who cares? It’s enough to ensure days out at the Guards Polo Club in Windsor, weekends in St Tropez and a passport to rich, beautiful women.How nice it would be to find out some murky, M15 past, some sexual practice involving ladies in thigh-high boots – but I suspect the truth is that Tim attracts the girls because he’s simple, smells nice and doesn’t pee in the sink.Known as “Nice-but-Tim” among his friends, a polite nod to the Harry Enfield character, he’s not known for his sharp wit. How sexy is that?Tim, 37, part-owns Mayfair’s Hamilton Galleries, and has a £750,000 house in Notting Hill which he either rents or owns, depending on who you talk to. Rumour has it he went out and bought a Ferrari, some lovely suits, dumped his girlfriend and headed for London society.At 21 he married Koo Stark, freshly dumped by Prince Andrew.And now he’s the man who bedded the woman who bedded the Prince of Wales’s bro. He’s the grandson of Richard Tompkins, the founder of the multi-million-pound Green Shield Stamp empire, but when the family fortune was carved up in 1984, he only received £500,000 That hardly made him lip-lickingly rich. And now he’s announced his engagement to Claudia Schiffer, who snapped up the offer before you could say “Tiffany”.
His girlfriend history reads like a GQ fantasy – Elle Macpherson, Kylie Minogue, Lisa B – but there are no bad-boy traces that top totty usually seem to love. Where is his drunk-driving charge? His murky past? The only crimes Jefferies seems to commit are against hairdressing.Which leads us to suspect that there is more to him than meets the paparazzi’s eye True, he does have money, but in modest amounts. Yet he’s dated more beautiful women than Sean Connery’s had toupees.