Noel Clarke has reportedly been arrested at his London dwelling after the Physician Who star misplaced his libel case in opposition to the Guardian final month.
The Metropolitan Police are believed to have detained the 49-year-old at his west London dwelling this morning.
Cops are mentioned to have carried out an hours-long search of the house, with laptops and paperwork reportedly seized.
The officers are mentioned to have spent at the very least 5 hours on the Kensington handle and had been reportedly seen leaving with containers.
The Solar reviews that Clarke, 49, was arrested and questioned in custody.
Clarke is alleged to have been launched after questioning and returned to his dwelling with two individuals in his firm.
It comes after the actor was advised this week that he should pay at the very least £3million of the Guardian writer’s authorized prices after pursuing a case in opposition to the newspaper for reporting sexual misconduct allegations in opposition to him.
In 2021, The Guardian printed a sequence of articles concerning the former Physician Who star, detailing allegations in opposition to him from greater than 25 ladies – allegations that Clarke denied.
A 12 months later, the Metropolitan Police reportedly dropped an investigation into Clarke, and the Kidulthood star started authorized proceedings in opposition to Guardian Information & Media (GNM) in 2023.
If his claims had been profitable, Clarke was reportedly able to demand £70million in damages repayments and pursue claims over allegations that individuals conspired in opposition to him with fabricated accusations.
Clarke misplaced his libel case in opposition to GNM in August, with Mrs Justice Karen Steyn saying that the that means within the Guardian articles was ‘considerably true’.
After a listening to on Tuesday, Clarke should pay an enormous portion of the writer’s authorized charges.
Justice Steyn mentioned he should pay the quantity forward of an in depth evaluation into the overall prices to be recovered.
She mentioned: ‘It appears to me that the sum of £3m sought by the defendant is acceptable and not more than what should be moderately ordered on this case.
‘It’s considerably decrease than the defendant’s seemingly degree of restoration on detailed evaluation and so in my judgment, it does permit for a suitably huge margin of error.’
The choose continued: ‘The claimant maintained a far-fetched and certainly a false case that the articles weren’t considerably true, by pursuing allegations of dishonesty and unhealthy religion in opposition to nearly the entire defendant’s reality witnesses.’
Metro contacted Noel Clarke’s consultant and the Met Police for remark.
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