The first patient in the study, a 46-year-old woman, took a common cold remedy for two days on top of her medication for migraine, depression and asthma.
In the absence of actual independent evidence of who did what in 2003 - the case came down to whether or not the jurors believed Vicky Pryce - a woman who had been able to rely on the former head of MI6 and other top figures as character witnesses.
Abramson is the first woman at the top of the Times masthead and spent her first year on the job guiding the 161-year-old publication through an ongoing digital transformation.