Boyle: Racist tag ‘libellous’

Comedian Frankie Boyle complained that he had been libelled when a tabloid newspaper described him as “racist”.

Lawyers told the High Court in London that a Daily Mirror article which started with the words “Racist comedian Frankie Boyle” was defamatory.

A barrister told a jury that the newspaper also defamed Boyle, from Glasgow, by saying he had been “forced to quit” the BBC show Mock The Week.