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

The claimant seeks special damages for losses resulting from the decisions of three organisations to disassociate themselves from him because of the article: One Ummah (whose Chief Executive Officer is Riszwan Rehman), Nature’s Blends (whose director is Yusuf Wasway) and SALAM. The claimant said that he lost (1) a deal worth £3,500 per month for him to be a Brand Ambassador for One Ummah, (2) an advertising contract with Nature’s Blends worth £1,500 per month and 25% commission, and (3) an engagement in a Ramadan fundraising campaign with SALAM worth £30,000. He relies on emails from each organisation sent between 17 and 24 November 2022.

On 17 November 2022, Mr Rehman emailed the claimant and said that One Ummah had decided to rescind its offer “due to recent UK press coverage of your alleged indiscretions in Leicester and your supposed “antisemitic stances”.” Reference was made to the first defendant. Mr Rehman confirmed that the amount that had been offered was £3,500 per month.

On 23 November 2022, Mr Wasway emailed the claimant and said that Nature’s Blends could not renew its contract with the claimant because of current coverage in the press (and reference was made to the first defendant). Mr Wasway confirmed that the renewed contract rates would have been “1,500 pounds per month plus commission of 25 per cent.”

On 24 November 2022 at 11.21pm, Amir Ahmed, from SALAM, emailed the claimant and said “I spoke to brother Amir and other guys in the shura, and they said you couldn’t be in the Ramadan fundraising campaign because of the Leicester news coverage, especially the stuff put out by… the racist Murray from The Spectator… I told brother Amir… that you were worth the 30 grand investment… but he said he wouldn’t want to privately finance something that could potentially backfire.”