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Article was a ‘highly distressing’ personal attack, Dyson tells High Court

Source: PA Wire

Sir James Dyson has told the High Court an article that a “vicious” article in the Daily Mirror was a “highly distressing and hurtful” personal attack.

Sir James, 76, entered the witness box at the Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday to give evidence in the trial of his libel claim against the newspaper’s publisher Mirror Group Newspapers Limited (MGN) over an article published in January 2022.

In his witness statement, the inventor and billionaire entrepreneur who is one of the leading lights in technology and industry, said he felt the article was “a

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