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Matthew Cooper

Messages sent by Charles Hanson are ‘confessions’ to charges, prosecutor claims

WhatsApp messages sent by celebrity auctioneer Charles Hanson to his wife amount to a “set of confessions” to the charges against him, the prosecutor at the TV star’s coercive control trial has claimed.

In his closing speech to jurors at Derby Crown Court, Crown counsel Stephen Kemp said the messages, including one in which Hanson promised to never again “lay a finger” on his wife, Rebecca Hanson, provide a clear window into the true nature of the couple’s relationship.

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