Jack Monroe, who won a libel action against columnist, says ‘it’s sad two tweets cost Hopkins her house, job and credit rating’
Katie Hopkins has applied for an insolvency agreement (IVA) in a bid to avoid bankruptcy following a costly libel case involving the food writer Jack Monroe.
Last year, the rightwing commentator was ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds in damages and legal costs after Hopkins sent tweets in 2015 which falsely implied Monroe backed the defacement of war memorials by protestors.
Monroe originally asked for Hopkins to apologise and donate £5,000 to a migrants’ charity or she would sue. But Hopkins – who had confused Monroe with the columnist Laurie Penny – refused to back down, resulting in a costly court case, with the commentator forced to pay £24,000 in damages and a substantially larger sum in legal costs.
Meanwhile, her mainstream media career collapsed. She parted ways with Mail Online, for whom she had written a regular column, in late 2017, only a few months after losing her LBC radio show when she called for a “final solution” in response to the Manchester Arena terrorist attack. She now works for the far-right Canadian outlet Rebel Media.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...tly-libel-case
Katie Hopkins has applied for an insolvency agreement (IVA) in a bid to avoid bankruptcy following a costly libel case involving the food writer Jack Monroe.
Last year, the rightwing commentator was ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds in damages and legal costs after Hopkins sent tweets in 2015 which falsely implied Monroe backed the defacement of war memorials by protestors.
Monroe originally asked for Hopkins to apologise and donate £5,000 to a migrants’ charity or she would sue. But Hopkins – who had confused Monroe with the columnist Laurie Penny – refused to back down, resulting in a costly court case, with the commentator forced to pay £24,000 in damages and a substantially larger sum in legal costs.
Meanwhile, her mainstream media career collapsed. She parted ways with Mail Online, for whom she had written a regular column, in late 2017, only a few months after losing her LBC radio show when she called for a “final solution” in response to the Manchester Arena terrorist attack. She now works for the far-right Canadian outlet Rebel Media.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...tly-libel-case
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