Tag: he then raised his defamation action.  Disclosure to the newspaper of the minute of the SSP meeting at which Mr Sheridan resigned was contested

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Tommy Sheridan, the Scottish Socialist Party MSP, won his sensational defamation case against the News of the World  and £200,000 damages when a jury of 11* handed down a majority (7-4) verdict in his favour on 4 August 2006.  Reports of the case had kept the nation enthralled and entertained for nearly five weeks.   In the autumn of 2004 the newspaper had published stories about an initially un-named MSP who engaged in multi-party sexual activity at a swingers club” in Manchester called Cupids and also had extra-marital affairs.  Later Mr Sheridan was identified as the MSP in question and