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Katie Hopkins Sued For £24,000

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13 March 2017

By Bronwen

At long last notorious businesswoman and TV personality Katie Hopkins has discovered that you can’t continuously mean-tweet without consequences. Hopkins met her match in 28-year-old Jack Monroe, who is a food blogger and anti-austerity activist.

Back in 2015, Hopkins tweeted to Monroe with regards to an act of vandalism on a women’s war memorial that occurred during an anti-austerity protest. The tweet was as follows:

“@MsJackMonroe scrawled on any memorials recently? Vandalised the memory of those who fought for your freedom. Grandma got any more medals?”

Clearly, the tweet implies that Monroe was responsible for the act or at least condoned it.

The judge found that Monroe would not have been anything other than sickened by the act, as she comes from a family with a strong military background.

Hopkins’s lawyer, Jonathan Price, argues that no serious defamation of character could have occurred because of his client’s tweets and that the whole affair was “sorted” on Twitter in a matter of hours.

The judge, however, stated that the tweets had “a defamatory tendency, which were published to thousands” and he did not believe, as Jonathan Price tried to claim, that no long lasting harm had been done to Monroe’s reputation or her business.

Katie Hopkins is now ordered to pay £24,000 damages as well as Monroe’s court costs.

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