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Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate trail and the Sunday mirror

Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate trail and the Sunday mirror . The Sunday Mirror will pay one of the biggest contempt of court fines in newspaper history after publishing an article that led to the collapse of last year's £10m trial of Leeds United footballers Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate.

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Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate trail and the Sunday mirror

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  1. Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate trail and the Sunday mirror

  2. The Sunday Mirror will pay one of the biggest contempt of court fines in newspaper history after publishing an article that led to the collapse of last year's £10m trial of Leeds United footballers Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate.

  3. The paper has been instructed to pay £75,000 for contempt of court by Lord Justice Kennedy and Mrs Justice Rafferty and will pay £54,000 in costs

  4. The Sunday Mirror's decision to publish an interview with the family of the Asian victim of the attack while the first jury was still considering its verdicts resulted in the collapse of the trial.

  5. Mirror Group Newspapers, which publishes the newspaper, accepted yesterday it was guilty of contempt and "unreservedly apologised" for the distress and inconvenience that followed the collapse of the trial.

  6. It accepted "corporate responsibility" for publishing an interview with the father of the Asian student, SarfrazNajeib , days after the jury retired to consider its verdict.

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