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Defiant Redknapp shouts to deny accusation of lying

February 2, 2012
Harry Redknapp denies two counts of cheating the public revenue © Getty Images
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Harry Redknapp fought back tears in court on Thursday as he fiercely denied telling his tax evasion trial "a pack of lies".

The football boss shouted from the witness box at prosecutor John Black QC: "You think I put my hand on the bible and told lies? That's an insult, Mr Black, that's an insult."

Bespectacled Redknapp shook his head as Mr Black ended his cross-examination at Southwark Crown Court, in London, by saying: "I suggest you have been telling the court a pack of lies."

With a voice trembling with emotion, Redknapp replied: "Everything I have told you is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God."

Redknapp said he was willing to swear again on the bible as he completed his evidence by saying: "I am not a liar."

He said: "I'm the most ungreedy person you have ever met in your whole life, ever."

Both Redknapp, 64, and co-defendant Milan Mandaric, 73, deny two counts of cheating the public revenue through "bungs" worth £189,000 in a Monaco bank account.

Redknapp had earlier said neither he nor Mandaric was "silly" enough to dodge tax. Mandaric, he said, presided over "two billion US dollars companies - we're not talking about a skint member (of the public)".

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