Blunders : Times failure to remove police corruption story from site for two years costs it £60k damages plus costs, Appeal Court rules
The Court of Appeal has rejected a bid by The Times to overturn an award of £60,000 in damages given to a police officer it said was investigated over corruption. The case concerned an article which appeared in The Times, and online, in June 2006, and reported that Gary Flood, at that time a Detective Sergeant with the Metropolitan Police Extradition Squad, was being investigated following allegations of bribery. Flood was exonerated by a police investigation report which was made available to the parties on 4 September, 2007. But the newspaper's article remained online for a further two years