Three strikes and you are out

So David Mills,the estranged husband of Tessa Jowell has lost his appeal against hsi sentence for accepting a $600,000 bribe from Silvio Berlusconi in 1997.

Mills will have to pay 250,000 euros as damages to the Italian government.

He won't yet have to face the jail sentence of 4 and a half years as in the Italian courts he has a third appeal to lodge

Quite where this leaves the Italian Prime Minister is not clear.He managed to secure immunity over the charges but this was overturned by the Italian courts and he may have to stand trial.

Mills gets 4 1/2 years

I think that the Orange Party blog has got it just spot on

Sleazy Silvio Berlusconi got away scot-free but no such luck for corrupt estranged husband of Olympics minister Tessa Jowell, with an Italian court finding him guilty of taking a bribe and locking him up for four and a half years.

The estranged husbland Of Jowell David Mills was found guilty of accepting a bribe worth £400,000 from the Italian Prime Minister which was used to help pay off their mortgage.

Mills maintains his innocence in all this and it is unlikely that this will reflect on the Olympics minister.

We await the judge's reason for sentance