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From The Mirror:

JADE ANGERS COPS BY INSISTING THEY DID QUESTION HER
By Stewart Maclean And Aidan Mcgurran Stewart.Maclean@Mirror.Co.Uk 12/03/2007
JADE Goody was branded a liar yesterday for claiming she HAD been quizzed by police probing her Big Brother outburst.

The Mirror told on Saturday how Jade, 25, blocked the investigation by refusing requests to be interviewed over 'racist' jibes at Shilpa Shetty.

But yesterday she insisted detectives had formally questioned her at her Essex home last month - and filmed it.

A highly placed Hertfordshire Police source said: "Jade's claim she was interviewed is an outright lie. Detectives made it clear they wanted to speak to her and mum Jackiey - but they said legal advisers warned against it.

"Without their statements, the investigation lost momentum. In the end, we had to drop the inquiry." Jade - who is desperate to win back public support - stuck to her story yesterday. Leaning out of an upstairs window of her £500,000 pad in Chipping Ongar, she said: "I did speak to police. They came around, set up cameras and everything. I answered their questions. My mum co-operated too. I don't know where this has come from."

Detectives were particularly puzzled by Jade's claim she was filmed.

The source added: "It seems like an effort to save face after bad publicity."

Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara, involved in baiting Shilpa, agreed to be quizzed. Detectives also spoke to Shilpa and Jermaine Jackson.

Police finally dropped the investigation on Friday after Channel 4 refused to release unseen footage allegedly showing Jade racially abusing Shilpa.

Jade hinted yesterday that she had signed a deal to return to India to try to patch things up with Shilpa.