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December 16, 2013

Picture caption error costs the Sunday World £20,000 in libel damages

By Darren Boyle

The Sunday World has agreed to pay the nephew of a senior UVF figure £20,000 in damages after he was wrongly named in a story in connection with his uncle.

The High Court in Belfast ruled that Glenn Irvine had been libelled by the newspaper following an article in the Sunday World on 28 October 2012.

The newspaper also agreed to pay Irvine’s legal costs.

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