Paper Monitor
11:57 UK time, Thursday, 28 September 2006
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
With a verdict in the bag in the romping-sex-tape-judges-chilli-hot -stuff-illegal-immigrant-once-married-to-a-suspected-serial-killing -asylum-seeker trial, the papers get to show their hands on the background material they've amassed – but were unable to publish - during the trial.
It's hard to think of a story that has ticked quite so many boxes, especially with the revelations that the Brazilian cleaner at the centre of it, Roselane Driza, was once married to an Albanian wanted for alleged people-trafficking and pimping, and is suspected of murder.
The Times treats readers to a retrospective of some of the sassy outfits Driza chose for her court appearances. It also speculates on what she'll be wearing in prison, with a picture of an inmate at Holloway mopping the floor "HER NEXT WARDROBE?" it wonders.
The Daily Mail gleefully pricks Driza's inflated ego, relating how she'd turned up to court with a letter telling photographers, in broken English, not to take her photo too close; and how she had tried to ditch her cleaning job in pursuit of becoming a philosophy student.
"Femme fatale with a mop and a bucket" runs the headline.
Daily Telegraph observers will know the mix of sex and dishonoured Establishment, in a court setting, is just about perfect for its paper – and it delivers in spades, across (broadsheet) pages one, two and three.
It does, however, strike a surprisingly sympathetic note for Driza, noting how "She could have seen [her lover reporting her to the police] as a betrayal... but she has barely had a bad word for him" and "there is no doubt she had made a home and life for herself here".
The Independent - which along with the Mirror (ok, and the FT) resists putting the story on the front – is docked marks for its all-too obvious headline: "Sex, lies and the stolen videotapes".
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