Judegment Day At The High Court London

Judegment Day At The High Court London
Mengi v Hermitage: Libel Claim Successfully Defended

Tuesday 4 December 2012

Reginald Mengi complicit in his brother’s corruption.

 

Mengi v Hermitage [2012] EWHC 3445 (QB)

Mr Justice Bean stated in his ruling that the defamatory publications that appeared in IPP media newspapers namely the Guardian and the Nipashe, facilitated Benjamin Mengis corruption and, intimidation of British investors Stewart Middleton and Sarah Hermitage in order to destroy the investment they had in Silverdale & Mbono Farms in Moshi and that Reginald Mengi was complicit in that corruption and intimidation.

 

Paragraph 91 of the Ruling.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/115127145/Mengi-v-Hermitage-Judgement

This campaign of “journalistic terrorism” facilitated Benjamin’s corruption of local officials and intimidation of the Middletons and thus helped Benjamin to destroy their investment and grab their property; Mr Mengi was in that sense complicit in Benjamin’s corruption and intimidation;

I find that the campaign in the Guardian and Nipashe facilitated Benjamin’s corruption of local officials and intimidation of the Middletons and thus helped Benjamin to destroy their investments and grab their property; and that Mr Mengi, since he either encouraged or knowingly permitted the campaign, was in that sense complicit in Benjamin’s corruption and intimidation. The allegation is thus substantially true, and justified at common law. The phrase “journalistic terrorism” is a comment, which Ms Hermitage was entitled to make as a fair description of the newspapers’ campaign: she did not say that Mr Mengi was a terrorist.

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