Walsh ‘vindicated’ by €500k settlement

Pop music manager Louis Walsh yesterday received an apology and a €500,000 settlement from The Sun newspaper over a false story that he sexually assaulted a man in a Dublin nightclub.

Mr Walsh sued The Sun’s publishers, Newsgroup Newspapers, for defamation which arose out of false allegations made by Leonard Watters.

In January, Mr Watters, aged 24, from Navan in Co Meath, was sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to making false reports to gardaí that Mr Walsh groped him in a toilet in a Dublin nightclub on Apr 9, 2011.