EMOTIONS RAN HIGH at Southwark Crown Court today as Harry Redknapp denied telling lies.
Redknapp and his former chairman at Portsmouth, Milan Mandaric, deny two counts of cheating the public revenue at times between 2002 and 2008 while they were working together.
The Tottenham manager is accused of using a bank account in Monaco to stash $295,000 of transfer bonuses from Mandaric.
Today, under cross-examination, the favourite to succeed England manager Fabio Capello, shouted as he denied accusations of being dishonest.
In response to prosecutor John Black QC suggesting that Redknapp has told ‘a pack of lies’, the white Hart Lane boss replied: “You think I put my hand on the bible and told lies? That’s an insult, Mr Black, that’s an insult.
“Everything I have told you is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God.”
Later, former TV presenter and Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson was called as a character witness. This morning, the former Portsmouth boss admitted he had misled a News of the World reporter Rob Beasley ‘to get him off his back’ in the run-up to a League Cup final with Manchester United in 2009.
He also said he named a bank account in Monaco after his dog Rosie, as he ‘loved her to bits’. The prosecution closing place will take place tomorrow.
- additional reporting AP
