Tuesday May 15 2012
‘The Sun’ paid man to make Louis Walsh sex claim – court
"A BRITISH tabloid tried to "take out Louis Walsh as a public person" by paying a man to make a false sex assault allegation, it was claimed in court.
The High Court heard that Leonard Watters allegedly met 'The Sun' journalist Joanne McElgunn for dinner where she offered to pay him if he made a complaint to gardai "about being assaulted" in a nightclub toilet.
Watters (24), from Navan, Co Meath, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment last January after pleading guilty to making two false reports to gardai that Mr Walsh sexually assaulted him in a toilet in Dublin's Krystle nightclub on April 9 last year.
'X Factor' judge Mr Walsh is suing Newsgroup Newspapers, publishers of 'The Sun', for defamation over an article it published on June 23 last.
The paper accepted the accusation was false but denied defamation and said it acted fairly and reasonably in relation to the publication."
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/the-sun-paid-man-to-make-louis-walsh-sex-claim-court-3108874.html
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