ITV’s This Morning is top of “a very long list”, including Sally Bercow, wife of the Commons speaker, of those facing legal action from Lord McAlpine over false accusations in relation to child abuse.McAlpine’s solicitor, Andrew Reid, said on Thursday that if those on the list failed to come forward to apologise he would have no choice but to sue. Some people, including Guardian columnist George Monbiot, have already apologised.
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Lord McAlpine has promised to end “trial by Twitter” by announcing an unprecedented series of libel actions against people who used the website to link him wrongly to child abuse allegations.The former Conservative Party treasurer said yesterday that he had been “terrified” when he became “a figure of public hatred” because of people naming him as the subject of a Newsnight report wrongly claiming a senior Tory was a paedophile.
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McAlpine’s solicitor warns long list of Twitter users to ‘apologise or be sued’
ITV’s This Morning is top of “a very long list”, including Sally Bercow, wife of the Commons speaker, of those facing legal action from Lord McAlpine over false accusations in relation to child abuse.