Nigella’s PA ‘cagey’ about spending

One of the personal assistants accused of defrauding Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi was “cagey” and “secretive” about where she got her designer clothes and spent most of the time at work on Facebook, a court has heard.

Elisabetta Grillo, 41, was taken ill and had to be led from the dock as evidence about her was given by her former colleague Alice Binks.

The defendant and her sister, Francesca Grillo, 35, are accused of abusing their positions by spending £685,000 on credit cards belonging to the celebrity couple to buy designer goods and luxury holidays for themselves.