X Factor Judge Louis Walsh Recieves £403,500 From The Sun Newspaper in Out of Court Settlement

 

X-Factor judge Louis Walsh has just reached an out-of-court settlement with the Sun Newspaper for Є500,000 (£403,500). The settlement relates to accusations, printed in the Sun on 23 June 2011 , claiming that Walsh had groped a man in the toilet of a Belfast nightclub. The accusations later turned out to be false and Walsh sued Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers for defamation.

 Leonard Watters was jailed for six months for wrongly accusing Mr Walsh of groping him in a Dublin club in 2011.