Enoch Burke has lost his defamation action against the Sunday Independent over an article claiming he was annoying fellow prison inmates.
Enoch Burke sued the paper over an article claiming he was moved to a new cell for annoying fellow inmates.He sued the newspaper over an article that claimed he was moved to a new cell in Mountjoy Prison for annoying fellow inmates – something that wasn’t actually true.
The article, which was published in October 2022, reported that Enoch Burke had been moved out of the prison’s general population “for his own safety.”Following his imprisonment for defying a court order, it claimed he had been annoying fellow inmates by repeatedly expressing his outspoken views and beliefs.
Even if the article was capable of damaging his reputation, the judge ruled that with regard to Mr Burke’s actual reputation at the time it was published back in 2022, the article couldn’t have injured his reputation.
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