(Jewish News) The barrister representing Mohammed Hijab described his client as “provocative, a bit of a smart-alec, a bit too cocky” but insisted that lawyers for the Spectator and its associate editor Douglas Murray had failed to substantiate serious claims against him.
Mark Henderson, delivering closing remarks at the end of a four-day libel trial at the Royal Courts of Justice, said the defendants had been “unable to find” more than three examples of problematic behaviour “out of thousands of hours of footage posted online [on YouTube]”.
Hijab, a social media influencer with more than a million YouTube subscribers, is suing the Spectator and Murray over a 2022 article that alleged his presence in Leicester and a speech to a crowd of masked men had contributed to intercommunal violence and race riots between Muslims and Hindus in the city.
