Husband ‘didn’t racially abuse personal trainer’

The property lawyer is further accused of racially abusing Steve Agyei, his wife’s celebrity fitness- trainer lover, when Hutcheon allegedly confronted the lovers in the city’s Noose and Monkey Bar.

The lawyer went on trial facing three charges at Aberdeen Sheriff Court in May and the case was continued yesterday.

Giving evidence, Mrs Hutcheon said she had been in a relationship with Mr Agyei – a former fitness trainer of Tony Blair’s wife Cherie and Spice Girl Emma Bunton – for a year, but split up with him a few weeks ago.

Mrs Hutcheon, 44, told the court she had not expected to see her husband when he came into the bar on 29 January.

Fiscal depute Dorothy Roy asked: “Did Mr Hutcheon approach you and Mr Agyei?”

She replied: “Yes. He asked me to come home. I had just stopped the divorce.”

Ms Roy asked: “Why were you with Mr Agyei?”

She replied: “Because I still wanted to.”

The mother-of-three said she could not remember whether her husband said anything to the fitness trainer.

She said he had been calm during the conversation but was uncomfortable because their 14-year-old son was with him at the time.

The court heard she told the police that her husband had called her lover a “tink” and referred to his clothes being a mess.