Grimsby Telegraph's Gary Allen legal battle used in journalists' bible

“Tremendous piece of work by the telegraph, this man needs outing at every opportunity. If you wish to critisise I suggest you put him in Hull Daily Mail archive and study. I also hope you consider if you had a daughter experiencing difficult times and in a vunerable situation would you like her to encounter him.
Once again congratulations Michelle”

“Michelle Hurst can't have done much in her journalistic career if she still finds it necessary to giver herself space in her own publication to rehash what could have turned out as an absolute disaster for the Grimsby Telegraph. Of course readers have only ever had one side of the story over the legal proceedings involving the naming if Mr Allen because Ms Hurst has editorial control of what goes into the newspaper and therefore what information the readers have.
In fact the Telegraph deliberately published a story and picture identifying Allen when a court had ordered them not to do so - simple fact. The use of the words in this article "finding ways round Court orders" tell the true story. I wonder whether the deputy editor would be crowing if Mr Allen had gone on the run as a result of his picture being plastered over the front page resulting in the police being unable to keep an eye on him and he'd as a result committed a further serious offence? Oh actually that was exactly what happened wasn't it? Even better if some local vigilantes had poured petrol through his letter box and people died as a result? Anyone remember the case of Alf Wilkins - acquitted by a jury and then burned to death in his own home by people who read about his case in the Telegraph but didn't find the fact he was not guilty buried in the small print?
As is regularly commented on this site the standards at this newspaper have slipped to such a disasterous extent that distinguished former staff members and editors no longer recognise the once proud local institution that the Grimsby Evening Telegraph once was.
Ms Hurst you should hang your head not be triumphant over your shabby part in this sordid case but you can of course rewrite history exactly as you want it.”

“"To have the case printed in McNae's is one of the highest honours for a journalist, and will hopefully help other publications realise that there are ways to defend our right to publish matters of huge public importance, despite what the results of the Leveson Inquiry might bring."


"...there are ways to defend our right to publish matters of huge public importance..."

I will save this and put it along side other clasics, such as the deputy head of fraud at the Crown Prosecution Service who said:

"People who commit fraud, in any walk of life, should know that the scale and technicality of a case is no barrier to bringing it to justice. At the heart of any complex fraud is a simple notion of dishonesty which is something that we can all understand." http://tinyurl.com/acjhhm6”