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Paddy French
May 30, 2024
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Press Gang has uncovered two new cases of collapsed trials involving the News of the World reporter Mazher “Fake Sheik” Mahmood.

These cases — buried for decades — show that Mahmood’s reckless behaviour could have been stopped long before he was finally brought to book in 2016.

A 1998 Bradford Crown Court trial collapsed after Mahmood and an informant we…

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