Tulisa Constavalos drug charge case dropped
N-Dubz singer and former X-Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos today walked free from court as she was cleared of organising an £800 drug deal.
Judge Alistair McCreath told Southwark Crown Court he believed prosecution witness, Mazher Mahmood, had lied to the court.
He told the jury: "There are strong ground for believing Mr Mahmood told me lies."
Tulisa had been accused of brokering a deal to supply cocaine to an undercover reporter, ‘fake Sheikh’ Mazher Mahmood.
Mahmood 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 heard.
Mahmood claimed that Contostavlos had put him in touch with her rapper friend Mike GLC to supply him with Class A drugs.
Tulisa reportedly grinned broadly in court when she heard that the jury was formally discharged from the case.
