LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Aldington libel trial

Genre

News report; Interview; Press conference

TX Date

30 Nov 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:03:46

Description

Margaret Shiels reports on a libel case in London in which Conservative peer, Lord Aldington (Toby Low) has received record damages of one-and-a-half million pounds, over allegations that he was a war criminal. The jury decided the peer was libelled in a pamphlet alleging he sent seventy thousand Cossacks and Yugoslavs back to their homelands after the Second World War, knowing they would be tortured and massacred. Count Nikolai Tolstoy wrote the pamphlet, and property developer Nigel Watts distributed it. Watts says he is going to appeal because the judge’s summing up was unfair, and Count Tolstoy says he will never be able to afford to pay the money. Includes interviews with Count Tolstoy; Nigel Watts.

Contributors

Margaret Shiels; Nikolai Tolstoy; Nigel Watts

Keywords

Authors; USSR; Libel; War crimes; Trials; Second World War (1939-1945); Property owners; Yugoslavia; Historians; Verdicts; Pamphlets; Nikolai Tolstoy; Nigel Watts; Toby Low; Cossacks; Yugoslavs; War Crimes and the Wardenship of Winchester College; Sun Alliance

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