{"id":2581,"date":"2007-05-17T17:23:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T17:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/05\/17\/falsely-accused-birmingham-man-wins-payout\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T16:49:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T16:49:29","slug":"falsely-accused-birmingham-man-wins-payout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/17\/falsely-accused-birmingham-man-wins-payout\/","title":{"rendered":"Falsely accused Birmingham man wins payout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div><strong>A BIRMINGHAM man falsely accused in a terrorist plot has been awarded \u201csubstantial libel damages\u201d by the High Court.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>City baker Abdul Rauf, of Ward End, Birmingham also received a public apology from The Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Times, Birmingham Mail, Birmingham Post and the Sunday Mercury after they had falsely linked to a plot to blow up a trans Atlantic\u00a0passenger aircraft with liquid bombs. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The newspapers printed articles in August last year which &#8220;suggested that there were reasonable grounds to suspect&#8221; Mr Rauf was funding the allaged plot, his solicitor told the High Court. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Certain of the articles suggested that Mr Rauf had been arrested in connection with the alleged plots, whether in Pakistan or in England,&#8221; she said.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;These allegations were untrue. As the defendant newspaper publishers all now acknowledge, Mr Rauf has never been arrested nor detained by police on suspicion of involvement in the \u2018liquid bombs&#8217; plot, or for that matter any other alleged terrorist plots or activities, and thee are no grounds for suspecting any such involvement.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;These articles caused Mr Rauf significant embarrassment and distress at a time of particularly heightened sensitivity in relations within the Muslim community.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>All publications also agreed to a written public apology. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Julian Darrall, solicitor for the publishers, added: &#8220;The defendants apologise to Mr Rauf for the distress and embarrassment he has suffered as a result of the publication of the false allegations contained in the articles complained of.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BIRMINGHAM man falsely accused in a terrorist plot has been awarded \u201csubstantial libel damages\u201d by the High Court. &#13; City baker Abdul Rauf, of Ward End, Birmingham also received a public apology from The Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Times, Birmingham Mail, Birmingham Post and the Sunday Mercury after they had falsely linked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}