NAOMI CAMPBELL

  Naomi Campbell testifies at blood-diamond trial, says she was given rocks

Supermodel Naomi Campbell Thursday complained that testifying at the war crimes trial of Liberian leader Charles Taylor was a “big inconvenience” and denied flirting with him before receiving a gift pouch of "dirty-looking" diamonds.

The model - who told how she was given the stones in the middle of the night - was accused of not being "entirely truthful" at the trial.

She was repeatedly told to stop interrupting lawyers before telling the Hague war crimes court that being there was a "big inconvenience" for her.

"I don't want to be here. I was made to be here... This is a big inconvenience to me," she complained.

Campbell had earlier been threatened with jail unless she appeared at the hearing to give evidence against Taylor.

The former Liberian president is accused of criminal responsibility for atrocities in Sierra Leone including mutilation, rape, sexual slavery and murder.

Prosecutors said Taylor gave Campbell "blood diamonds" after a dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela in South Africa in 1997.Taylor is accused of selling similar diamonds to buy weapons for rebel fighters in Sierra Leone's civil war, during which hundreds of thousands of people died.

                                 

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