Mirror journalists’ ‘scam’ was too successful, court told

TWO financial journalists accused of reaping a string of illicit “share ramping” windfalls were the victims of their own success, a court heard yesterday.

One of the tips they highlighted in their City Slickers column in the Daily Mirror not only made them a “handsome profit” but also sent stock in the computer company owned by Alan Sugar soaring.

James Hipwell and Anil Bhoyrul, said to have been among a number of the newspaper’s employees who bought shares in Viglen the day before their article appeared, later made “the usual sort of boast” about their power.