Campell's war crimes trial appearance 'a distraction'

Prosecutors were today accused of scoring a “spectacular own goal” after calling supermodel Naomi Campbell as a witness in the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor.

The 40-year-old from Streatham, south London, admitted receiving “dirty-looking pebbles” from two men in the middle of the night after a party hosted by Nelson Mandela in South Africa in September 1997.