Fucking hell, Nigella picture, WTF? [includes links to upsetting images]

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Tomorrow's Sunday People cover. Where do we even start with this?

Schmaltzing maybe this is that intervention? Those pictures could well have been taken by someone being paid to try and get such a shot.

I really hope that she finds the strength to leave him. Poor woman.

The article indicates it was fairly public as rows go.

I had 2 thoughts

1. God she looks so sad and all doesn't seem well

1. Who the fuck thinks it is right to photograph her like that.

I understand news blah blah but fucking hell she looks like she needs a really good friend MN to lean on.

I feel sad on her behalf.

She looks sad and knackered in those photos, I agree.

Awful....no words for it. Love Nigella, always thought they had such an amazing relationship. If he was just checking her thyroid, why would she a. look so terrified and b. be pictured leaving in tears. Plus, I doubt the papers would want to risk the libel case, report says other customers heard them arguing and gasped at what was happening.

If DH did this to me in a restaurant I'd go home and lock him out for a start. Then I'd be straight onto MN.

I am shocked by those photos.

Anybody saying that there could be an innocent explanation clearly hasn't looked at them all. She's in tears in the last one.

According to onlookers (what the fuck were they doing 'onlooking' and not intervening) he was shouting at her and grabbing her arm and she leant over and kissed him on the cheek to pacify him.

Poor Nigella.

Would anyone like to buy my new installation: "seventy year old penis and testicles in formaldehyde"?

They are possibly in the throes of breaking up.

Oh my word - that Daily Mail link! Could the captions have been any more out of step with the pictures? 'Loved up' and 'the tender touch'? Yeah, right.

Since there is evidence of an assult will the police automatically look into it and charge him?

Or would she have to make a complaint?

Nobody helped. No one yelled or said 'What the hell are you doing?'
Not one person in that restaurant said a thing to challenge him.

Maybe (probably not, but it's possible) the person taking the pics wanted to give her a wake up call. Intended or not, maybe it has done her a long term favour, even though she may not see it.

TBF, we don't know that no-one on the scene called the police. I would have done that. I suspect that would actually be more helpful to the victim than leaping into some kind of heroic confrontation, with who knows what consequences later.

hotcross -the short answer is yes. The police can, and should act on these latest photos. A conviction without a complaint is unlikely, but the pictures will help.

I think you need to be careful about intervening in domestic situations like that, jumping in probably isn't always the best thing.

Poor woman. Hope she can get away from that excuse of a man and find peace.

Something is very wrong in those pictures, I don't know how they can be construed as anything other than domestic abuse.

I think it was absolutely the right decision to publish them. A conspiracy of silence is what allows abuse to continue. I hope she LTB.

Thanks Ziggy I always get confused with how these processes work.

Worst case scenario and Nigella doesn't want to report him, at least everybody will see him for what he is and his reputation will be damaged irrevocably.

Those photos are really shocking.

Hope she is OK.

Hope the police are banging on his door.

So so sad. Love nigella. Always so upbeat and positive despite facing many challenges. She deserves better than this prick.

Am I the only person tat is also angry that it would seem no ne stepped in after a man very publicly throttled his wife? I would hope the papperazzi leapt up and did something about it a fraction of a second after taking the photo but I doubt it... It shouldn't happen in the first place but standing by and not doing anything is unforgivable too