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Trio accused over bribes face retrial

Three businessmen accused of paying £350,000 in bribes to a BP employee to secure contracts worth £10 million are facing a retrial after the jury failed to reach verdicts.

Gary Webster, 54, of Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Christopher Hawdon, 65, of Guernsey, and Ronald Murray, 67, of Peckham, London, were said to have transferred tens of thousands of pounds into 64-year-old Terry Hall's wife's account.

The trio allegedly paid the money over four years to ensure BP employed deep-sea divers through OilExec, a company part owned by Hawdon and Murray's C-MAR Holdings Group. However, yesterday the jury was discharged. The Crown will announce next week whether they will pursue a retrial.

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