Owls chairman cleared of tax evasion

So let's see if I've got this one right. This trial was the result of a five year investigation costing around £8million? Well I'd say someone's been cheating the public revenue and it ain't 'Arry or our Mr. Mandaric. Anyone else out there tried to report a crime in your local neighbourhood recently? Police must be a lot quicker off the mark dahn sarf. Or how about that time when you fingered the local vandal for smashing up your garden fence. Weren't so keen to prosecute then either. But five years and £8m, that's a different ball game. That's more than a few high-level junkets down to Monaco for a bit of the old 'Hello hello, what's all this then?' And what did they have after five years? Conflicting stories secretly taped by some reporter working for an extinct Sunday rag that'd give the word 'dodgy' a bad name. "It's kosher guv, honest. He swears by it an' it only cost me the price of two G&Ts." "You keep the receipts for that did yer? Good boy!" Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to convince a jury there was something fishy going on and having half of Scotland Yard sat there glowering at them for a couple of weeks merely delayed their verdict until they were all absolutely certain they were legally parked. I doubt heads will roll though. There'll be a huge discrepancy on a balance sheet somewhere but there'll still be a chance to claw some of it back when the BBC uses licence payers' money to turn the case into a lavish two-part musical production.