The verdict is expected today in the trial of an escort girl accused of paying her brother to murder her husband.
The decomposed body of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the tenth Earl of Shaftesbury, was found in a remote ravine in the foothills of the Alps in April 2005, five months after he went missing from his hotel on the French Riviera.
Jamila M'Barek (45) a former nightclub hostess and Lord Shaftesbury's third wife, is accused of paying her brother Mohammed €150,000 to murder him.
The prosecution claim she wanted her estranged husband dead so that he could not divorce her and deny her the chance to inherit valuable properties in France and Ireland.
Mr M'Barek (43) is accused of killing the 66-year-old peer during a drunken row in November 2004. He has admitted killing him, but denies murder, saying he strangled him "accidentally". Ms M'Barek denies being an accomplice.
Yesterday Catherine Gurtler, who ran an escort service in Geneva, described Ms M'Barek as a "bitch" who manipulated the earl so that she could get her hands on his money.