So buying an out of court no publicity settlement in a Civil Trial didn't hold up in a Criminal Trial? Poor guy. A contract signed under duress is hard to enforce.

This mix of Criminal and Civil case outcomes is sort of like OJ Simpson winning the Criminal Trial but losing the Civil Suit brought by his victim's relatives. Or Glen Clark being found "not proved beyond reasonable doubt" of accepting the Benefit that Dimitrios Pilarinos was convicted of providing, in the same trial, then being found to have been in Conflict of Interest, and to have influenced Farnworth to grant a Casino Licence to an MC gang, by the Conflict Commissioner.