For most legal professionals Mazher Mahmood — the former News of the World investigations editor — is a dim memory. More than ten years ago he was caught lying on oath at the trial of the singer Tulisa Contostavlos. Continue reading
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The supplier of the gun said to have been used in Mahmood’s failed Victoria Beckham kidnap plot was never contacted by Scotland Yard. The police were investigating Mahmood in Operation Canopus in 2005 but made no contact despite the fact the five defendants spent up to eight months on remand. Continue reading
On 4 December 2104, the CPS announced it has dropped three cases and is re-investigating another 25 after a BBC Panorama documentary detailed the potentially questionable ways one of News UK’s most senior and prolific reporters, Mazher Mahmood, obtained his stories using his famous Fake Sheikh identity. Continue reading
A week ago today, BBC finally aired the long awaited Panorama exposure of Sun on Sunday reporter Mazher Mahmood after a battle between lawyers from both camps at the High Court before the judge eventually ruling against Mahmood’s application for injunction to halt the programme. Continue reading
Scotland Yard investigated Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood 9 years ago – in 2005 just four months before they initiated a phone hacking investigation into his newspaper. Like Operation Caryatid, there isn’t a trace of a follow up or outcome despite the evidence that triggered the investigation being accepted in two courts. Continue reading
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