4 MARCH 2000, Page 50

JACK VETTRIANO In our article 'What you see is what

you get' (19 February) we referred to an alle- gation published in the Daily Record last December that Jack Vettriano had pestered an Edinburgh businesswoman. Mr Vettriano completely denies the alle- gation. He told us that the woman in question first made her allegation some 10 years ago; he denied it at the time and after he had provided the police with handwriting and fingerprint samples he was eliminated from their enquiries.