RIO, CHELSEA & ZAHAVI - SOMETHING DOES NOT ADD UP

Last updated : 14 April 2005 By editor

Chelsea’s comments on the Saturday night meeting:

“There is absolutely no significance in Peter Kenyon seeing Rio in a busy London restaurant. This was a meeting purely by chance in a public place.”

Pini Zahavi’s explanation is a little different:

“It was in the very last minute he said 'I'm coming to London'. I said 'OK, please do, but I'm with Kenyon'. He said 'So what? I'll join you'. You may believe that I'm not stupid. This was a very nice and simple thing - it was nothing. After we finished dinner, Rio came to take some papers from me. He had some pasta."

And dopey Rio can’t get his story straight, the Times report:

‘There was a slight discrepancy between Ferdinand’s and Zahavi’s version of events, with the agent contradicting his client’s claim that he had “no idea” Kenyon would be present.’

Does Zahavi’s account tell of Kenyon ‘seeing’ Rio by ‘pure chance’? Surely if you are aware that someone is coming to have a meal with you, it is not then a chance meeting. Andy why is either Rio or Zahavi lying about who knew what? And yet it is all innocent of course.