The actress was flown to Heathrow from Nice yesterday after she contacted
detectives to say she had crucial information on the cashforhonours affair.
A Yard source said today she had been questioned about what she knew but
detectives had quickly dismissed her information as valueless. The source said:
"We spoke to her in person but we decided she did not have anything of interest
to say so she was not formally interviewed. In effect, she was time wasting."
Earlier this year the actress - whose soft-porn credits include the film Dirt
Merchant - told how easily she and her husband had duped Labour fund-raising
officials after they had paid £1,000 to attend the Labour fundraising ball at
the Park Lane Hilton.
Who do you do? Fake count and countess John and Courtney Coventry with Tony
Blair at a fundraising gala in London, 2004
She said: "The fake aristocratic title should have shown up in the vetting
procedure. But it was clear Lord Levy and the Labour Party were interested only
in how much money I could give them."
Mrs Coventry told how she had a conversation with the Prime Minister in which
he talked about his vision for the future and how she chatted to Jack Straw.
She said: "He spent most of the time talking to my chest."
Meanwhile, it emerged that police investigating the cash-for-honours affair
were told that Tony Blair would quit earlier if he had been quizzed as a
suspect.
The Metropolitan Police team of detectives received the stark warning from
Number 10 in January as they were preparing to grill the Prime Minister under
caution.
In the end, Mr Blair was questioned by police only as a witness. But these
claims are sure to be seized on by critics as proof that No 10 pressured the
investigating officers by raising the prospect of a constitutional crisis.
