The Spectator

Letters | 5 December 2009

Spectator readers - and their lawyers - respond to recent articles

issue 05 December 2009

Shooting, moi?

Sir: We act for Cherie Blair.

We are instructed with regard to an article… The Spectator’s Notes by Charles Moore (28 November). It alleged that our client attended a shooting party at Lord Rothschild’s house in Buckinghamshire with ‘Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the Libyan dictator, and the man who escorted the Lockerbie bomber, Al Megrahi, home to a hero’s welcome in Libya in August.’

Plainly, this article is highly defamatory of our client as, in suggesting our client was at this shooting party with Saif Al-Islam Gaddaffi [sic], you have alleged that our client was, socialising or ‘rubbing shoulders with’ an individual who, in your words, is ‘a member of the family responsible for the biggest terrorist atrocity ever committed against British citizens.’

Contrary to what you suggest, our client was not present at the shooting party and was not at Lord Rothschild’s house at any time whilst Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi was in attendance.

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