Photographer-To-The-Stars Cleared Of Race Assault

A National Portrait Gallery photographer - who has worked with a string of famous politicians and celebrities - was acquitted yesterday of a race-hate attack on a pregnant hajib-wearing mum during a supermarket check-out row.

Celebrated portrait photographer Cinnamon Heathcote Drury, 41, of Holland Road, West Kensington pleaded not guilty to the racially aggravated assault of Mounia Hamoumi in Tesco's, Warwick Road, on November 30, last year.

It took the Isleworth Crown Court jury only fifteen minutes to unanimously find her not guilty after a four-day trial.

Hathcote Drury told the court she was the victim of an assault by the alleged victim and sustained injuries to her shins and the side of her face.