Sun and Mirror to be possibly charged for Contempt of Cour over the Jo Yeats case.

[DTCwordfan]

I heard this on Radio 4 following the palaver of the landlord.

Given that some folk around here were pretty liberal with their comments and views about the landlord, some bordering on contempt, I wonder what you, the accusers, are feeling now

And there were a number of us who warned you about the dangers and possible liability of AB and ABers to this.

So we told you so. You know who you are............. I could seek for the offending threads and effectively name and shame, but I won't

[trt]

I agree with you DT.

He was thrown to the lions just because he was a suspect, hes also had to move away from his home now, poor bloke.

[DTCwordfan]

Well I hope he gets some compensation, somehow, from all of this as his life must have been hell, especially when he knew he was not guilty.

[DTCwordfan]

well housemouse, there were/are lessons for some ABers to take aboard about injudicious comments when somebody is arreseted....and that such comments can fall on dangerous grounds as to contempt and even possibly libel.

I am sure that they, the authorities or the Landlord, will catch up with AB, but some due restraint needs to be exercised at those times.

[rov1100]

You have got to put it into perspective. Newspapers have millions of readers. Maybe a couple of hundred read about it on AB.

[Gromit]

You are mixing up two entirely different things. There were many libelous things written on here concerning the landlord, encouraged by some very shockingly bad reporting in the tabloids.

That is not Contempt. That is when reporting disobeys certain conditions imposed on it by the courts. No one on here would/could be done for Contempt.

[jno]

Contempt in this case would imply that because of their reporting a fair trial could not be held. This probably wouldn't apply to AB. Some ABers might nonetheless have been libellous, and that would mean AB could be sued. It would probably have to come out of the Moderators' pockets.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13371918

[Gromit]

21st April 2011


Mr Christopher Jefferies has today given notice of libel and privacy claims against a large number of national and local newspapers in relation to articles published by them in December 2010 and January 2011.

The newspapers include The Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Star among others. Mr Jefferies will be seeking vindication of his reputation for the terrible treatment he received. Mr Jefferies will not be making any statement about these claims until their conclusion, which he hopes will be in the very near future.

Simons Muirhead & Burton partner, Louis Charalambous, who also represented Robert Murat, leads the team representing Mr Jefferies in these libel and privacy claims.

http://www.smab.co.uk...ease%20final%20v2.pdf

It is not surprising that this development was not widely reported by the same newspapers that hounded him. The link above was the first I had heard about it. I hope he takes them all for a great deal of money.

[douglas9401]

I seem to remember him being guilty of owning and driving a private car and looking a wee bit odd.
On that basis I invite the gentlemen of the press to camp at my gate and make up stories about me.

[Maggoty]

Douglas - only members of the press? Could I not join in? I'm very clean and will tidy up after me? x

[douglas9401]

I feel a shaggy dog story coming on. :)

[WuTang]

the post was rather a damp squib

[carolegif]

Someone said to me he was guilty as he looked odd! As a resident of both Oxford and Cambridge at various times in my life, I knew he was just a typical academic!

[sara3]

did he not lie to the police about seeing her with 2 men?

[sandyRoe]

Did the newspapers say he had lied to the police?

[sara3]

I thought that was the basis of his arrest.