A judge told a jury yesterday of his horror at discovering that a Brazilian cleaner he was sleeping with had stolen his home-made sex videos and was blackmailing him. The immigration judge, who nicknamed Roselane Driza, an immigrant who was his former lover, “real chilli-hot stuff”, said he was “absolutely petrified” that she would send Lord Falconer of Thoroton, the Lord Chancellor, recordings of him having “intimate relations” with two women, including another Asylum and Immigration Tribunal judge. Miss Driza, 37, is accused of blackmailing the male judge to live rent-free at his home, and of extorting £20,000 from the female judge, who had employed her illegally.
Giving evidence on the third day of the trial, the male judge, named only as Mr I for legal reasons, said that he returned from a trip abroad and discovered that two sex videos had vanished from the home he was sharing with Miss Driza. “I was absolutely petrified,” he told the Old Bailey. “She told me about scenes from the video. She was saying something about my having slept with other women on the video cassettes.
“I told her I wanted the videos. Her reaction at that stage was that she had taken them and they were her defence. She said she had wrapped them up and left them with a friend with instructions of what to do if anything happened to her.” The tapes had not been recovered, he added.