Noel Clarke Sues BAFTA For Defamation After UK Police Stop Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims

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Actor Noel Clarke is suing BAFTA for defamation, following the Academy’s decision to suspend his membership following allegations of his sexual harassment and bullying. The Sunday Times reports th…

newspaper published a report including claims by 20 women of abuse, bullying and harassment – all of which Clarke has denied.Metropolitan Police’s decision last month to suspend their investigation

into the allegations, saying they had “determined the information would not meet the threshold for a criminal investigation.” In response to his lawsuit, a BAFTA spokesman said: “A year ago, BAFTA was transparent about what led to Mr Clarke’s award and membership being suspended following serious accusations of groping, harassment and bullying by 20 women published by“We stand by our decision and are very surprised by the news he now wishes to sue the arts charity. If proceedings are served, we will of course defend ourselves.

Clarke is also suing The Guardian Media Group, and Condé Nast, the owner of GQ magazine, which ran an interview with the two journalists who broke the story.

 

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Innocent until proven guilty is making a come back. Interesting

Discovery should be interesting

Well done Noel, in making yourself a more hated person & for the biggest Streisand Affect E V E R!!

Ooh. And the boys are finally fighting back.

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