Sharpe's Opinion
Friday, 24th Jul, 2009
Richard Desmond Sets the Record Straight
The Daily Express reports that its owner ‘expressed satisfaction’ with the outcome of his recent court case:
Mr. Desmond said: “I sued Mr Bower for defamation because he made inaccurate and damaging allegations about me, yet he refused to apologise and publish a correction. […]
“His biggest mistake was in thinking I would not go to court to uphold my reputation and the resulting action has cost many hundreds of thousands of pounds to defend a few ill-thought-out remarks that were not even essential to his book.”
Mr. Desmond concluded: “It was worth it to stand up in court and set the record straight.”
Note that the article doesn’t mention the crucial utterly irrelevant point of whether or not Mr Desmond actually won his court case…