The assault case against Caroline Flack was going to be dealt with as a caution until police appealed the prosecutor's decision, an inquest heard today.
The Love Island host, 40, was charged with assaulting her boyfriend Lewis Burton at her home in north east London on December 11 last year.
Caroline was going to be handed a caution - which would have given her a criminal record but would have kept the case out of court - until the police challenged the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decision, the hearing was told.
Lisa Ramsarran, deputy chief Crown prosecutor, said the CPS decided Ms Flack should only be given a caution as it was "not in the public interest" to proceed.
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