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| Tesco fraud trial abandoned pending possible re-trial | |
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| The trial of three former Tesco executives charged with fraud and false accounting has been abandoned. | |
| Chris Bush, Tesco's former UK boss, John Scouler, Tesco's former commercial food director and Carl Rogberg, its former UK finance boss have been on trial for more than four months. | Chris Bush, Tesco's former UK boss, John Scouler, Tesco's former commercial food director and Carl Rogberg, its former UK finance boss have been on trial for more than four months. |
| It emerged on Tuesday that Mr Rogberg had a heart attack last Thursday. | |
| The Serious Fraud Office will decide in early March whether to pursue a re-trial. The men deny the charges. | |
| Mr Rogberg, aged 51, remains in hospital awaiting surgery. | |
| Discharging the jury, Judge Deborah Taylor said: "It wouldn't be right or proper to continue with this trial." | |
| The three had been accused of fraud and false accounting in connection with the retailer's £250m accounting scandal. | The three had been accused of fraud and false accounting in connection with the retailer's £250m accounting scandal. |
| The three men always denied the charges and argued in court that the SFO's investigation was flawed from the outset. | |
| Initially, the hope was that the case would finish before Christmas, but the trial has been beset by delays. | |
| The judge became ill during her summing up and there was a further pause of two weeks when a juror went on holiday. | |
| One member of the jury had already been discharged by then because of an operation. |