Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Rooney Libel thrown out:

From the Press Gazette

A grandmother suing The Sun over claims that she had sex with Wayne Rooney while working as a prostitute had her £750,000 damages claim thrown out of court today.
Mother-of-seven Patricia Tierney, 52, denied the claim published in the paper in August 2004 that she was a sex worker at a Liverpool brothel used by the England and Manchester United star.
But today at Manchester County Court, it was revealed that Mrs Tierney, from Whiston, Merseyside, had admitted working as a prostitute in a statement to police two years earlier


It is unlikely that the Sun will receive any of the costs awarded as Tierney is on benefits.The Judge however has referred the case to the DPP to look into possible perjury and attempting to pervert the course of justice charges.

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