A Melbourne nightclub owner has been awarded $90,000 for being defamed by a former police officer who called her venue a 'honeypot' for drug dealers. 9News
A Melbourne nightclub owner has been awarded $90,000 for being defamed by a former Victorian police officer who called her venue a "honeypot" for drug dealers.Inflation nightclub director Martha Tsamis had been seeking between $200,000 and $350,000 after suing the State of Victoria over comments about drugs and underage patrons made in 2014 by former superintendent Brett Guerin to the Herald Sun and 3AW.
But the jury accepted the state's truth defence linked to the imputations that Ms Tsamis operated Inflation as a "honeypot" for drug dealers, in a way that allowed drugs to be sold or consumed, and which resulted in overdoses at or around Inflation.Supreme Court Justice John Dixon today awarded Ms Tsamis $90,000.
"Although the meanings had a detrimental effect on the plaintiff's reputation, they did not go to the core of her professional reputation as a nightclub manager," Justice Dixon told the court.
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