Hedge fund manager denies grope claim

One of Britain’s most successful hedge fund managers has denied indecently assaulting a young woman at his Chelsea home. Crispin Odey, 61, allegedly groped the junior banker, then in her 20s, and put his hand up her skirt in July 1998 at his palatial property in southwest London. The arch Brexiteer, who is said to have donated £10,000 to Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign, ‘launched himself’ at the alleged victim, prosecutors claim. The woman claims he put his hand in her…