‘Racist shame’ of F1 tycoon Mosley
» Police probe to see if he lied under oath » Under fire for ‘publishing’ far-right leaflet
POLICE will look into whether Max Mosley lied under oath at his orgy privacy trial after the discovery of a fascist pamphlet allegedly published by the ex-Formula One boss.
The Crown Prosecution Service has sent Scotland Yard a dossier probing evidence Mosley gave at the High Court hearing in 2008 when he denied all knowledge of any such pamphlet.
Mosley, 77, successfully sued the nowdefunct News of the World after it exposed his sadomasochistic orgy with five prostitutes, which the newspaper wrongly reported was Nazi-themed.
During the trial he said he did not recall putting out election literature in 1961 vowing to send black people home.
He also explicitly denied any leaflets from the campaign accused immigrants of bringing leprosy, syphilis and TB, saying: “That is absolute nonsense.”
Confronted this week with one such pamphlet naming him as its publisher, he rejected the “offensive suggestion” that he had committed perjury.
But a copy of the Daily Mail probe on Mosley, which unearthed the pamphlet, is with Scotland Yard. Detectives are expected to carefully consider it and decide whether to launch a full-scale probe.
The Met Police said: “The CPS forwarded information from the Daily Mail to the Met Police. An assessment will be carried out.”
Mosley has spent the years since his privacy case trying to muzzle the Press.
But Theresa May insisted newspapers are a “very important” tool that can “shine a light in some of the darkest corners of our society”.
At Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday she insisted the freedom of the press “will never change” while she is PM after concerns were raised about Mosley’s links with a new media regulator.
The vile leaflet, found in a historical archive in Manchester, states: “Published by Max Mosley.”
It was printed when Mosley was an election agent for Walter Hesketh, a Union Movement candidate in the 1961 by-election in Moss Side, Manchester. The far-right party was founded by Mosley’s father, British Union of Fascists leader Sir Oswald. Max Mosley said he had challenged the
I have never been a racist, I’m not a racist, never will be a racist ON THE LEAFLET CLAIMS
NoTW to produce the document in court, “which they failed to do”.
He told Channel 4 News: “I obviously would not have done that if I knew of its existence.
“My record in motorsport demonstrates that I do not tolerate racism and, like most people, my political views have changed over time.” A copy of the leaflet, presented to him on the news show, included the warning: “Protect your health. There is no medical check on immigration.
“Tuberculosis, VD [venereal disease, or STDs] and other terrible diseases like leprosy are on the increase.” It also stated that “if enough people vote for me in this election, the government… will be sending coloured immigrants home”. But Mosley said he had “no reason to apologise to anyone”, adding: “This was a statement in a leaflet which I am not even sure is genuine, which would never reflect my view.”
He went on: “This was in 1961. I ceased to have any involvement in my father’s movement in 1963.”
However, he said: “If that leaflet is genuine, I am responsible for it and it shouldn’t have been issued. “I have never been a racist. I am not a racist, never will be a racist.” Asked if he had committed perjury during the 2008 High Court hearing, Mosley dismissed the question as “stupid”. He said: “Perjury is saying something you think is untrue, you know is untrue. I said something that I knew in my own mind was true.”
Mosley has campaigned for tighter press regulation and his family charity gave funds to new press regulator Impress. He is also trying to use data protection laws to delete references to his “private party” and what he says are inaccurate references about his relationship to Impress. Yesterday he insisted he would “continue to campaign for the vital reforms needed to protect ordinary people against the bullying of newspapers like the Daily Mail”.
Labour, whose deputy leader Tom Watson received £540,000 in donations from Mosley, said it would take no more cash from him. A senior Labour source described the views expressed as “repugnant”.
Mr Watson said: “The views expressed by Max as a young man are not the views he holds now.”