Top hedge ‘fund manager put his hand up a woman’s skirt’ 23 years ago

One of Britain’s most successful hedge fund managers thrust his hand up a junior banker’s skirt and told her they would sleep together, a court heard. Crispin Odey, 62, allegedly assaulted the 26-year-old woman in July 1998 at his Chelsea home when he was 39. The arch Brexiteer, who donated £10,000 to Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign, ‘launched himself’ at the alleged victim, prosecutors claim. She asked him ‘when is this going to end’ and he replied: ‘This is going to…