Court hands down first Twitter libel damages order

Welsh councillor fined £3000 for defamatory tweet


Caerphilly county councillor Colin Elsbury was ordered to pay £3,000 damages plus costs after using the social network to wrongly claim Eddie Talbot had been removed from a polling station by police during a by-election in 2009.


The libel occured as both men were standing for election to Caerphilly town council - where Elsbury had previously served as mayor.

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