‘Don’t call Jeffrey Epstein a paedophile’: The top Irish lawyer part of 2011 effort to defend Epstein’s reputation

Today's episode of The Indo Daily was brought to you by our sister podcast, The BelTel. This podcast was first published on Friday, February 20th. ‘Don’t call Jeffrey Epstein a paedophile’ – that was the demand of a top NI lawyer to a London newspaper in 2011. Paul Tweed was brought in to try and limit the damage to the sex-offender’s reputation after he was released from prison. The Belfast solicitor is one of the best-known libel lawyers in the UK and Ireland. He has told the Belfast Telegraph that he “categorically rejects the suggestion that he acted in any way inappropriately”, saying he acted within his professional and regulatory obligations. The Belfast Telegraph’s Northern Ireland editor Sam McBride joins Ciarán Dunbar in the studio.

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