Asil Nadir jurors consider verdict

Jurors in the eight-month trial of former tycoon Asil Nadir for allegedly stealing millions from the Polly Peck business empire yesterday retired to consider their verdicts.

Nadir, 71, is accused of stealing £34 million from his company Polly Peck International, which collapsed in 1990 owing £550m.

He left the UK for his native Northern Cyprus in 1993, but returned in 2010 to face trial at the Old Bailey.

Nadir faces 13 counts of theft between 1987 and 1990. Prosecutors claim he siphoned off millions through a complex series of transactions, using the money to make himself rich.