Journalists Get £500
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 6.
Two television journalists who claimed that they had been libelled by the satirical weekly, “Private Eye,” were each awarded £5OO damages by the High Court yesterday. Their newspaper, the “People,” held exclusive rights to a story on a Scottish anarchist, Stuart Christie, released after serving three years of a 20-year prison sentence on terrorist charges. The journalists, Hugh Farmer and Denis Cassidy, complained that “Private Eye” alleged that they had gone drinking with Christie in Glasgow, accompanied him to the flat of two prostitutes, and given him money to have intercourse with one of the prostitutes.
The High Court judge said that at the time all three men were in a Glasgow television studio.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31907, 7 February 1969, Page 12
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123Journalists Get £500 Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31907, 7 February 1969, Page 12
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