Just when we thought he’d finally run out of bad ideas, Mazher Mahmood, clapped out “Investigations Editor” of the News of the Screws, has managed to squeeze his by-line on to the front page of the notorious Shag Rag once more.  No doubt in the wake of Madonna’s failed attempt to adopt a second child in Malawi, the counterfeit sheikh has concocted a massively spurious claim that Indian child “Slumdog” star, Rubina Ali was offered ‘for sale’ by her dad, Rafiq Qureshi.

On the basis of an unsubstantiated, selectively edited conversation, almost certainly driven by Mahmood’s skill in extracting the answers he wants, spineless Screws editor Colin “There Will Be Fewer Celebrity Stings In Future” Myler allowed the dangerous fantasist to spin and twist it into 5 pages of his ‘newspaper’.

One can only hope that the 3 million purchasers of the News of the World (one is reluctant to call them readers) are so accustomed to this kind of sensationalist twaddle from Mahmood and his colleagues that they will just laugh – as they so often do.

‘It’s a load of effing crap,’ as a wise London cabby described the paper to me. ‘But it’s a good laugh, innit.’

But it’s not – not if, like Rubina and her family, you’re at the receiving end of its malicious fictions.

Those who wonder why the Screws keep on the Fake Sheikh, now that he’s more of a liability than an asset, should understand that Mahmood (like Shag’n’Brag supremo, Neville ‘Onan the Barbarian’ Thurlbeck) knows where far too many bodies are buried for management ever to show him the door.

Only the total destruction of the Screws will put an end to the careers of these evil, sanctimonious hypocrites masquerading as journalists.

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