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TV star in court breakdown

TELEVISION star Anna Ryder Richardson sobbed into her Scots husband's chest yester- day after he admitted serious health and safety breaches at a wildlife park that put a mother and her young child in hospital.

COURT APPEARANCE: Anna Ryder Richardson had been due to stand trial alongside her husband Colin MacDougall.
COURT APPEARANCE: Anna Ryder Richardson had been due to stand trial alongside her husband Colin MacDougall.

The celebrity interior designer wept uncontrollably and refused to leave her husband's side after identical charges against her were withdrawn.

The admission of guilt means the couple now face a potential civil damages action.

Ryder Richardson, 48, had been due to stand trial yesterday morning at Swansea Crown Court with her husband, Glasgow restaurateur Colin MacDougall, 46.

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