Former Chelsea Football Club chairman Ken Bates has been awarded £150,000 in damages following a High Court libel battle over claims, published in a magazine, that he had rivals “murdered”.
Mr Bates brought legal action against journalist Tom Rubython and BusinessF1 Magazine, of which Mr Rubython is the director and majority shareholder after he was profiled in a piece titled “The biggest ‘wrong-un’ in sport” in May 2023.
