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| Tamara Ecclestone's ex-boyfriend guilty of blackmail | Tamara Ecclestone's ex-boyfriend guilty of blackmail |
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| A former boyfriend of socialite and model Tamara Ecclestone has been found guilty of trying to blackmail her. | A former boyfriend of socialite and model Tamara Ecclestone has been found guilty of trying to blackmail her. |
| Derek Rose, 33, was in a two-year relationship with the daughter of F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone when she was 17. | Derek Rose, 33, was in a two-year relationship with the daughter of F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone when she was 17. |
| He tried to blackmail the now 28-year-old for £200,000 last November, Southwark Crown Court heard. | He tried to blackmail the now 28-year-old for £200,000 last November, Southwark Crown Court heard. |
| Rose, of Arlington Road in Camden, north London, and Jakir Uddin, of Old Walsall Road, Birmingham, have denied blackmail. | |
| The jury is yet to deliver a verdict on 20-year-old Mr Uddin, a media studies student. | |
| 'Pernicious' implications | |
| During the trial the court was told the pair drafted an email to Ms Ecclestone's manager, Dana Malmstrom, saying they had been offered £200,000 for a news story, when in reality no offer had been made. | |
| The email was sent in November 2011 after the model had starred in Billion Dollar Girl, a reality television programme exploring her life as a rich youngster, the court heard. | |
| Prosecutor William Boyce QC said the email was constructed to intimidate Ms Ecclestone and went on with "pernicious" implications about damage to her reputation. | |
| The tone of the email was "you don't really want that in the press whether it's true or not", he told the court. | |
| Rose made £10,000 from selling his story to a tabloid in 2002 after their relationship ended, the jury heard. | |
| During the trial Ms Ecclestone said she just wanted Mr Rose "warned" after receiving the email last November and not necessarily arrested. |