Fasting protester wins libel damages
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July 30, 2010, Friday
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A PROTESTER who went on hunger strike outside Britain's parliament last year won substantial libel damages yesterday over newspaper reports he had secretly eaten McDonald's burgers during his demonstration.
Articles in the Daily Mail and The Sun said Parameswaran Subramanyam had scoffed takeaways during his 23-day protest over the plight of Tamils caught up in Sri Lanka's civil war, after which he was treated in hospital for five days.
His lawyer Magnus Boyd told London's High Court the claims struck at the heart of his integrity.
Subramanyam began his hunger strike as part of a large protest in central London in April 2009.
Six months later, the Mail and The Sun ran stories which claimed that specialist police monitoring equipment had caught him secretly eating burgers and that he had caused the police to waste a fortune in public money.
Boyd said both papers now accepted the allegations were entirely false.
Articles in the Daily Mail and The Sun said Parameswaran Subramanyam had scoffed takeaways during his 23-day protest over the plight of Tamils caught up in Sri Lanka's civil war, after which he was treated in hospital for five days.
His lawyer Magnus Boyd told London's High Court the claims struck at the heart of his integrity.
Subramanyam began his hunger strike as part of a large protest in central London in April 2009.
Six months later, the Mail and The Sun ran stories which claimed that specialist police monitoring equipment had caught him secretly eating burgers and that he had caused the police to waste a fortune in public money.
Boyd said both papers now accepted the allegations were entirely false.
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