A barrister with Pump Court Chambers has suggested that the Sunday Mirror may be guilty of a serious criminal offence over its story regarding a sex sting involving a government minister.
MP Brooks Newman resigned as minister for civic society on Saturday night (27 September) after it was revealed he had sent “explicit” pictures of himself to a journalist who was posing on Twitter as a 22 year-old female researcher called Sophie Wittams.
Pump Court Chambers barrister Mathew Scott has raised the possibility that the story was a breach of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 which makes it a Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
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