‘I had no idea giving freebies to a cop was wrong,’ says Cirque le Soir boss

The businessman behind the Cirque le Soir nightclub told a court he did not believe he was doing anything wrong when he gave festival tickets to a corrupt Met Police sergeant. Frank Partridge, 49, allegedly accepted a £7,000 family holiday to Morocco, a Manchester United shirt signed by Wayne Rooney and the services of a professional escort between 2013 and 2015. He received bespoke suits and shirts paid for by security firm TSS, jurors have heard. One of the bribes…