A BRAZILIAN cleaner told a jury yesterday of the moment she discovered a home-made video of two judges having sex while one snorted cocaine.

Wearing silvery kitten-heeled shoes, an ankle bracelet, a flamboyant white dress and with designer sunglasses perched on her head, Roselane Driza told the Old Bailey that she was furious when she found that the judge she was living and sleeping with had a collection of pornographic videos.

Giving evidence through an interpreter on her first day in the witness box, Miss Driza denied stealing the videos and using them to blackmail two immigration judges with whom she was locked in a love triangle. She rejected prosecution claims that she had tried to extort £20,000 from the woman judge to stop her from revealing how she had been employed illegally for five years as her cleaner.

Instead, Miss Driza, 37, insisted that the judge, named as Miss J, should pay her £100,000 for psychological damage and racial discrimination after calling her “Brazilian bitch”.

Miss Driza said she had found the first sex video in August last year after the judge she was sleeping with, named as Mr I, had returned property they shared following his short holiday abroad.

Thinking the cassette was of his trip she watched it but saw Mr I in bed with a blonde. She said she felt shocked, betrayed and angry. Two weeks later she found a video showing Miss J and Mr I who had been lovers and lived together.

“I was furious with him because he was keeping an old cassette about an old relationship when he was with me.

“He asked for the cassettes back and I said I would give him the one of the blonde but not the one of Miss J. What I saw on that video made me angry and frightened. It seemed me that Miss J was taking cocaine and he was close to her.

“He said the cassette wasn’t made here but in Thailand and there was not any problem with that [cocaine use].” After her arrest in October 2005 she said she destroyed the videos to honour her promise to him that no one would see them.

Miss J earlier said she had not taken cocaine or ever knowingly been filmed having sex. Mr I said making the films was an act of stupidity.

The court has heard that Mr I fell for Miss Driza whom he nicknamed “real chilli-hot stuff” after seeing her at Miss J’s home soon after she began work there in 1999 despite not having a work permit.

Miss Driza recalled him “observing” her while she was ironing. Mr I then employed her at his home from 2000-2003. Mr I and Miss J had lived together for five years but had split up in 2000. In 2004 Miss J phoned Miss Driza’s answer machine and sacked her without explaining why. Miss Driza wrote to her later asking for £1,400, money she said she was owed for holidays and a month’s notice. Miss Driza said that Miss J, who remained close friends with Mr I after they split up, was jealous when she realised her former cleaner had begun a relationship with the judge. She said “even today” she is emotionally scarred after Miss J “lost control” during a phone conversation with her about her sacking and swore at her.

Asked by Frances Oldham, QC, for the defence, about a letter she wrote to Miss J demanding £20,000 compensation — the documentary evidence at the heart of the blackmail case, she said she now felt that figure should be £100,000.

She said she reached the amount because of Miss J’s racist remarks about her, stress caused, obscene names and psychological damage she had suffered. “She would say I was dirty from foot to head, that I didn’t wash my hair and that I seemed a bit crazy and that perhaps I consumed drugs.”

She said Miss J had treated her like an animal when she threw her out of the house after the judge returned home with her new lover, another immigration judge, and found Miss Driza ironing.

Miss Driza denies two charges of blackmail with menaces and stealing two videos between January and October 2005.

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