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Barrister wins Mail apology

TOP criminal barrister Sasha Wass QC won a grovelling apology and "substantial" damages yesterday from the Mail on Sunday over an article which wrongly accused her of putting an “innocent” fraudster in jail.

Associated Newspapers apologised for printing the "entirely untrue" allegations that Ms Wass had "buried evidence of Met bribes to put an innocent man in jail."

The October 2016 article related to confiscation proceedings against "disgraced solicitor" Bhadresh Gohil, who was convicted of helping Nigerian politician James Ibori launder tens of millions of pounds of embezzled funds.

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