Laurence Fox ordered to pay £180,000 to two people he called ‘paedophiles’

High court judge orders actor turned politician to pay £90,000 damages to each individual for social media libel

The actor and rightwing activist Laurence Fox has been ordered to pay £90,000 each in damages to two people he libelled by referring to them as “paedophiles” on social media.

A high court judge made the order in London on Thursday. Fox lost his high court libel battle in January, after Mrs Justice Collins Rice ruled that he had defamed two men by calling them paedophiles after they labelled him a racist.