Winehouse: witness, not suspect

The Mirror is so keen to detail Amy Winehouse's yet-another-booze-marathon that it almost forgets to find space to blow a couple of big holes in the News of the World's 'Amy in jail killing herself' story:

A Scotland Yard source said last night: "We have no evidence against Amy being involved in any crime.

"If we had she would have been arrested straight away. But we do want to talk to her about matters, particularly financial ones, which may be important in this case. It seems that in her marriage she has been the breadwinner and has kept her husband in pocket money.

"We've looked at their financial affairs and there are questions we'd like to ask her."

Now, this could be a quote made up in the Mirror offices, but the "it seems she's the breadwinner" comment does sound like the sort of top-grade sleuthing that's coming out of Ian Blair's force these days, and it's a very good point that if the cops thought Winehouse had committed a crime which would see her go to prison for life, it's less-than-likely they'd be sending invitations to pop over for a chat when she gets a moment.