Metropolitan Police Must Pay Analyst; Influenced Media Not to Use Him as On-Air Commentator

A British tribunal has ordered the Metropolitan police to pay Charles Shoebridge, a specialist on security and terrorism issues, after it found that the force had improperly influenced networks not to use him on the air. Shoebridge had already sued the police force successfully in 2000 for sex discrimination. He claimed that the force then tried to discredit him by issuing a memo to at least one network, Sky News. The tribunal awarded Shoebridge fifty-two thousand pounds for “lost earnings and injury to his feelings” according to an article in The Guardian. The Met is not planning to appeal. Read more here.