There was a time when the News of the World’s much-heralded “investigations editor”, Mazher Mahmood was creating stories that made the front page of the paper every few weeks. But over the last half dozen years, as his antics have begun to cost the paper, and the country, more and more in wasted police time, legal expenses and libel pay-outs, his name has been seen less and less and further back in the paper.
       The former glory with which editors and management, like the disgraced Stuart Kuttner and Andy Coulson, tried to endow him has been replaced by a well-earned reputation for dishonest and inaccurate reporting, incitement to crime, illegally using his employer’s funds (with their connivance) to buy class A drugs, phone hacking, invasion of privacy by the use of covert video camera, entrapment and defamation.
       But just to show he’s not quite a spent force (and because management can’t get rid of him as long has he knows where so many bodies are buried in Wapping), this week on, page 20 of the illustrious paper, he reveals the stunning news that a former employee of the later Michael Jackson is in a position to sell a tiny piece of pleated black satin that was, he assures the tireless Fake Sheikh, one of the innumerable face-masks that the late tweeny popster liked to wear to avoid direct contact with the pervasive aroma of LaLa Land and uptown LA where he was conducting rehearsals for the O2 Show that was never to be.
       It’s a feeble, easily garnered story by any standards, which, brought in by a less luminary hack, would merit no more than 100 words, with, of course, a mug shot of the late Wacko. Perhaps, one day soon, common sense, and Young Master James will prevail, when the Fake Sheikh, his sycophantic entourage of One, and all his works and pomps will be cast into the fiery furnace where they belong. And the Cats of Kensington will see justice done.

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