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Article: Bitter taste of defeat; Former boss: Martin Cullen Shock verdict: PR consultant Monica Leech with her husband, John, appears stunned as she vows to fight all the way to the Supreme Court.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- June 29, 2007
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Byline: PAUL CAFFREY
PR WOMAN Monica Leech last night sensationally lost her High Courtbattle against Independent Newspapers over 'lewd and offensive' allegationsmade about her and Minister Martin Cullen.
The jury took just 90 minutes to decide yesterday that Mrs Leech was notlibelled by the Independent Newspaper group, which had repeated an allegationmade on RT...'s Liveline, claiming that she had offered sexual favours to MrCullen in exchange for a Government contract.
Despite strenuous pleas from a lawyer for Mrs Leech to award 'very large'damages, the jury of six men and six women rejected claims she had been'destroyed' by the article which ...