Mazher 'Fake Sheikh' Mahmoud Found Guilty!

Billy86

Could not be happier, this utter f***ing scumbag deserves everything he gets. I barely now who this Tulisa one is apart from seeing her face on TV from time to time, but this kind of scumbaggery deserves the book to be thrown at him

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37563509

Undercover journalist Mazher Mahmood, known as the Fake Sheikh, has been found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

Mahmood, 53, was found to have tampered with evidence in the collapsed drugs trial of singer Tulisa Contostavlos.

His driver and co-defendant, Alan Smith, 67, was also found guilty of the same charge following a trial at the Old Bailey.

Prosecutors said Mahmood had had a "vested interest" in her prosecution.
Both men will be sentenced on 21 October.

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Mazher Mahmood, known as the Fake Sheikh, was the master of the tabloid undercover sting.

For more than 20 years, his stories have not only made front page news - they have helped send people to prison. This verdict throws new doubt on his tactics and evidence.

Three cases based on his evidence have already been abandoned, another 25 have been referred to the Crown Prosecution Service. Six have been taken up by the Criminal Cases Review Commission, including that of the former London's Burning actor John Alford.

Another 18 people want to take civil legal action against him.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/05/fake-sheikh-mazher-mahmood-tulisa-contostavlos-trial

Mahmood could face a series of court cases following the conviction. Mark Lewis, media lawyer and partner at Seddons solicitors, has been instructed by 18 people to pursue civil claims against Mahmood which could top £800 million.

Lewis said: “Over the last 25 years, innumerable lives have been ruined by the dishonest actions of Mazher Mahmood. People have lost their livelihoods, their homes and relationships, with some spending time in prison.

“Following today’s verdict, there will be a significant number of civil claims made against Mazher Mahmood. We anticipate the total sums involved could easily reach 800 million, with some awards dwarfing those seen in the phone-hacking scandal.”

Good riddance, and hopefully for a long, long time to a lowlife who made a living off ruining other people's livelihoods based on lies!

Barry Badrinath

Fcuk you Mahmood ya beardy bollix

Gatling

Hopefully now every case he and his team were involved In gets revisited and over turned if needs be .

Ted111

Yeah!!! That'll show him!
About TIME.
Bastardd.
Well deserved ya fuvker!





*I have no idea who he is

osarusan

The conviction seems a bit sheikhy.

seamus

He's a symptom of the private British media, which is absolutely rotten to the core. No standards, no regulation, an absolute failure to adhere to any form of code of conduct.

The fact that Piers Morgan didn't spend a day in jail for hacking a dead child's mobile phone for stories (instead he got a cushy presenting job) and Katie Hopkins and others are regularly allowed spew their hate-filled idiocy all over their pages demonstrates that none of them can be taken seriously.

Scumbags in the private british media, every single one of them.

The BBC stands as the only beacon of independence in the British media, and even then I have no doubt they've been forced to suppress or alter many of their stories to suit the currently sitting parties.

Arthur.beaker

Dirty fecker.

CINCLANTFLT

Wait so that Tulisa one is not a drug dealer? Again, I don't follow who she is, but that was my last and now possibly incorrect view of her...

PopePalpatine

The Guardian's report wrote:

Mahmood could face a series of court cases following the conviction. Mark Lewis, media lawyer and partner at Seddons solicitors, has been instructed by 18 people to pursue civil claims against Mahmood which could top £800 million.

Lewis said: “Over the last 25 years, innumerable lives have been ruined by the dishonest actions of Mazher Mahmood. People have lost their livelihoods, their homes and relationships, with some spending time in prison.

“Following today’s verdict, there will be a significant number of civil claims made against Mazher Mahmood. We anticipate the total sums involved could easily reach 800 million, with some awards dwarfing those seen in the phone-hacking scandal.”

I doubt they'd even get £800k out of him, never mind £800 million.

seamus

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

Wait so that Tulisa one is not a drug dealer? Again, I don't follow who she is, but that was my last and now possibly incorrect view of her...

No, it was entrapment. She was promised a big acting deal if she could sort him out with a big ball of cocaine.
He then set her up to be arrested and made false statements about what was happening and paid other witnesses to alter theirs.

She wasn't a drug dealer but was desperate enough to find a contact who could sort him out with some. And this piece of **** nearly had her sent to jail for it.