HARRY REDKNAPP has been cleared of tax evasion charges, after the jury in the Tottenham manager’s case at Southwark Crown Court returned a not guilty verdict this morning.


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Milan Manadaric, on trial on charges relating to the same case, was also found not guilty. The pair had been accused of diddling the tax authorities while both were at Portsmouth FC.

The prosecution has alleged that a Mandaric-to-Redknapp payment of &pound189,000 via a Monaco bank account was a bonus for work done at Pompey and that it should therefore have been taxed.

Mandaric and Redknapp argued that the money was transferred for personal investment purposes and had nothing to do with Redknapp’s football job.

The prosecution’s case is thought to have been compromised by the lack of paper evidence linking the money to Porstmouth FC; Redknapp’s barrister argued that the evidence that was put forward was “repugnant to all our basic instincts of fairness”.