Published Date:
02 July 2009
LEEDS United chairman Ken Bates has been ordered to pay £50,000 damages to a former club director who alleged he had been "persecuted".
Businessman Melvyn Levi, 65, brought a libel action at London's High Court over a letter and articles in several club programmes.
Mr Levi said he had been accused of trying to blackmail the club and of being unscrupulous and dishonourable.
Mr Bates, 78, denied libel, pleading justification and fair comment, but fasiled to prove his case according to judge Sir Charles Gray.
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Last Updated:
02 July 2009 11:01 AM
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Location:
Pontefract & Castleford
