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(CNN) — Charles Saatchi told a London newspaper Tuesday that he went to police voluntarily over an incident in which he grabbed his wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, by the throat to avoid it “hanging over all of us for months.”
The furor over the incident dominated the British press Tuesday, a day after Saatchi accepted a police warning related to the case.
In a statement to The Evening Standard newspaper, for which he is a columnist, Saatchi said: “Although Nigella made no complaint I volunteered to go to Charing Cross station and take a police caution after a discussion with my lawyer because I thought it was better than the alternative of this hanging over all of us for months.”
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