TV doctor Christian Jessen ordered to pay £125,000 in damages for false tweet
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter Dr Christian Jessen has been ordered to pay damages of £125,000 to the first minister of Northern Ireland after tweeting false information about her.
In December 2019, the celebrity doctor, best known for appearing in the Channel 4 show Embarrassing Bodies, made unfounded claims to his 300,000 Twitter followers that Arlene Foster was having an extramarital affair Today, Mrs Foster’s lawyer welcomed the ruling after a judge found Dr Jessen's claims to be "an outrageously bad libel".
Mr Justice McAlinden told the court: “To state that a woman married for 25-and-a-half years and a mother of three children, who is a committed Christian and who is
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