Yet another – and not the last – Fake Sheikh scam has bitten the dust. Snooker player John Higgins has been found Not Guilty of accepting bribes for the match-fixing mendaciously reported by the News of the World. Although Mazher Mahmood must be relieved that his victim has been fined £75k for being such an arse as to be taken in, it seems grotesquely unfair that Higgins has been penalised for being a victim of entrapment by the nation’s sleaziest hack.

Mazher Mahmood has no interest in the truth, only in the size of his headlines. He has consistently made up stories and more recently tried to illustrate them with crassly bodged up, badly dubbed videos. The Pakistani bowlers will almost certainly be shown to be victims of his ham-fisted doctoring of the “video evidence”.

It’s extraordinary that any serious purveyors of news still take his stories seriously.

The News of the World  should be shut down before they do any more to damage the reputation of this country and its citizens.

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