Tamara blamed over botched Met police raid

SCOTLAND Yard has blamed Tamara Ecclestone over a raid on the home of an innocent chauffeur wrongly accused of selling jewellery stolen in a £25million burglary on her mansion.

Flying squad detectives burst into the home of Paul Carton, 57, and held him to a chair while they ‘ransacked’ the house.

Mr Carton had paid £1,000 in 2013 for a gold ring mount that once belonged to the socialite, pictured, and listed it for sale last year.

Police were convinced it had been stolen in Britain’s biggest ever domestic burglary in December 2019. Undercover officers targeted the driver by posing as prospective buyers. The father of three suffered a broken tooth, injured back and cuts and bruises in the raid after he resisted thinking he was being burgled.

A new report from the Met’s Specialist Crime Professional Standards Unit has revealed that Miss Ecclestone mistakenly told officers the ring had been stolen, when she had actually sold it through a luxury fashion seller.