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| 'Fake Sheikh' Mazher Mahmood jailed over Tulisa case | |
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| Undercover journalist Mazher Mahmood, known as the "Fake Sheikh", has been jailed for 15 months for tampering with evidence in a case involving singer Tulisa Contostavlos. | Undercover journalist Mazher Mahmood, known as the "Fake Sheikh", has been jailed for 15 months for tampering with evidence in a case involving singer Tulisa Contostavlos. |
| The reporter, 53, and his driver Alan Smith, 67, were both found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice earlier this month. | |
| Judge Gerald Gordon said Mahmood had wanted to "enhance" his reputation. | |
| Smith was sentenced to 12 months, suspended for two years. | |
| 'Another scalp' | |
| Judge Gordon told the pair: "You, Alan Smith, agreed to and did alter your original witness statement to remove the passage that you both realised could be used to support Tulisa Contostavlos's case in an entrapment hearing. | |
| "Mazher Mahmood, it was your idea. You were the intended beneficiary and you made use of a loyal person, partly an employee, in order to achieve your purpose. | |
| "The motive was to preserve and enhance your reputation. | |
| "You wanted another scalp and Miss Contostavlos's conviction would have achieved that. | |
| "And to achieve that, when you saw a problem, you were prepared for the court to be deceived." |