The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that former BP chairman John Browne cannot be questioned without limits about his knowledge of the oil giant’s deadly Texas City refinery accident.

Lawyers for BP have objected to comparisons made between the British oil giant’s deadly 2005 plant explosion in the US and examples of corporate mismanagement such as Enron’s collapse.

ECCENTRIC New York millionaire Robert Durst, who said he accidentally killed a hot-tempered neighbour in self-defence and then dismembered the body in a panic, was found innocent yesterday of murder.