Why didn't anyone help Nigella Lawson?

By Alecia Simmonds
Updated June 17 2013 - 4:39pm, first published 4:31pm
Nigella Lawson on the set of the TV Show Watch What Happens Live earlier this year. Photo: Bravo
Nigella Lawson on the set of the TV Show Watch What Happens Live earlier this year. Photo: Bravo

When Charles Saatchi choked, pinched and assaulted Nigella Lawson at Scott’s restaurant in London bystanders gawped and took photographs. No-one called the police and no-one attempted to help her. When asked to comment on the incident a spokesperson for the restaurant said: ‘we do not comment on the private affairs of clients.’ The choice of words is a good indication of why onlookers tolerated a crime in a way they wouldn’t if it were any other crime.

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