Art collector Charles Saatchi accepted a police caution for clutching his wife Nigella Lawson’s throat to stop the altercation “hanging over” them, he said.
The 70-year-old spoke out for a second time after the confrontation with his TV cook spouse, which he has dismissed as “a playful tiff”.
He said: “Although Nigella made no complaint, I volunteered to go to Charing Cross station and take a police caution after a discussion with my lawyer because I thought it was better than the alternative of this hanging over all of us for months.”
Saatchi accepted the caution after visiting the police station on Monday.
The Metropolitan Police said: “This afternoon, Monday June 17, a 70-year-old man voluntarily attended a central London police station and accepted a caution for assault.”
Former advertising executive Saatchi said he was holding Lawson by the neck “to emphasise my point” as they discussed their children.
He admitted the pictures, in which his wife appears to be grimacing as he holds her outside Scott’s in Mayfair, looked “horrific”.
