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IT TOOK two judges and two juries three months to acquit an international transport and forwarding firm and its London manager of fraud charges in a case which ended at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday — at an estimated I to the State of some £140,11 The first trial had lasted weeks and the jury actually considering its ver when it was discovered t had seen a document wl lot part of the evidence. ,e Joseph Davies, QC, .ed a re-trial.
weeks into the second Judge Temple QC, rder of Liverpool upheld rice submissions that ? was insufficient mce against the firm of -ine and Nagel Ltd, of hwark, London, and ;tian Horst Hentzschell, 31, of Malden Hill, New ,en, Surrey, on charges of piracy to defraud.
e prosecution offered no ier evidence against the pany on 20 charges of ining money by decepand verdicts of not guilty ? entered on all these ges.
e judge said this was one lose rare cases where it Id be oppressive to prowith the trial against zschell alone on six final ges of deception and he red these charges to lie on Hentzschell was disged.
ists were allowed to both -Iclants for both trials out ntral funds.