KB-2023-003636 - [2025] EWHC 2043 (KB)

The defendants are each responsible for the article, which conveys the following meaning:

“The claimant is a street agitator who has whipped up a mob on London’s streets, addressed an anti-Israel protest in inflammatory terms, and exacerbated frayed tensions (which had already spilled over into public disorder) between Muslim and Hindu communities in Leicester by whipping up his Muslim followers including by ridiculing Hindus for their belief in re-incarnation and describing Hindus as pathetic, weak and cowardly in comparison to whom he would rather be an animal.”

That meaning is a statement of fact which is defamatory of the claimant at common law. The publication has not caused, and is not now likely to cause, serious harm to the claimant’s reputation. In any event, it is substantially true, and it is not materially inaccurate. The claims are, accordingly, dismissed.