Entrepreneur denies investment guru kidnap plan

An entrepreneur accused of plotting to kidnap an investment guru after a £1.6m deal fell through insisted she was on good terms with the victim. Bernadette Degrassee, 43, and financier Thomas O’Donovan, 36, allegedly arranged for David Cumberbatch to be ‘arrested’ for fraud after a meeting in London’s West End. Mr Cumberbatch, director of First Global Intermediaries, was grabbed by two men wearing radios clipped to their jackets as he left an office in exclusive St James’ Square, jurors were…