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High court: Sally Bercow's Lord McAlpine tweet was libel High Court: Sally Bercow's Lord McAlpine tweet was libel
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The high court has ruled that Sally Bercow's tweet about Lord McAlpine was libellous. A tweet by Sally Bercow about Lord McAlpine has been ruled libellous by the High Court.
There will be another hearing at a later date to determine damages. Mrs Bercow, the wife of Commons Speaker John Bercow, published a tweet two days after a BBC Newsnight programme had wrongly implicated a "leading Conservative politician" in sex abuse.
Amid widespread speculation about his identity, she wrote: "Why is Lord McAlpine trending. *innocent face*."
Mrs Bercow said she was "surprised and disappointed" by the ruling.
A subsequent High Court hearing will determine the damages she must pay.
Last November, Newsnight implicated a Thatcher-era politician in allegations of sexually abusing boys in the care of a children's home in Wales in the 1970s and 1980s, but it did not name Lord McAlpine.
The former Conservative Party treasurer was then wrongly identified on the internet.
The BBC apologised unreservedly to Lord McAlpine and settled his defamation claim for £185,000.
After publishing her comment about Lord McAlpine, Mrs Bercow apologised in four subsequent tweets but denied that her original tweet had been defamatory.
But she added: "However, I will accept the ruling as the end of the matter. I remain sorry for the distress I have caused Lord McAlpine and I repeat my apologies."