Teacher Enoch Burke has denied that his own behaviour had led to reputational damage rather than a newspaper article he claims defamed him.
Mr Burke was being cross examined on the second day of an action for defamation against Mediahuis, the publishers of the Sunday Independent over an article published in October 2022.
Mr Lupton put it to Mr Burke that the public controversy that surrounded him was"because of the way you behave. You breach court orders, you misbehave in court". Mr Burke said students had flash mobbed him, looked for his autograph and wanted their picture taken with him. It was put to him that he had chosen to spend more than 340 days in prison and could leave at any stage if he chose to purge his contempt.
He rejected as"a disgusting and horrible allegation" that at a previous court appearance he had wanted to purge his contempt, but someone told him not to.
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