No charges for Barrymore over man’s pool death

ENTERTAINER Michael Barrymore yesterday walked free from a police station, after lawyers said there was no “realistic prospect” of convicting him of sexually assaulting or murdering a man found dead at his home six years ago.

The Crown Prosecution Service said there was “insufficient evidence” to charge Barrymore with any offence in relation to the death of 31-year-old butcher Stuart Lubbock.

Barrymore was questioned in Harlow, Essex, following his arrest on suspicion of seriously sexually assaulting and murdering Mr Lubbock. But his lawyer, Henri Brandman, said the star had “always protested his innocence”.