THE family of Lucie Blackman was yesterday embroiled in a bitter dispute after the Japanese man accused of her killing was cleared.

THE father of murdered British woman Lucie Blackman said his daughter had been robbed of justice yesterday after a court cleared a Japanese businessman of involvement in her death.

The father of murdered British hostess Lucie Blackman has accepted a payout from an old friend of the Japanese man charged with killing his daughter, he said today.