BUS BROTHERS WE WON’T STOP UNTIL WE GET OUR £400K
Easdales ready to ruin net defamer
TWO bus tycoons have threatened to bankrupt the blogger who falsely accused them of being involved in organised crime.
Former Rangers directors Sandy Easdale, 55, and brother James, 52, were each awarded £200,000 at the Court of Session in Edinburgh last May.
The brothers have now warned they will pursue Paul Hendry for the £400,000 after a criminal case against him concluded last month.
Hendry, 59, had branded the businessmen “gangsters” in several posts on YouTube and X (Twitter) last March.
Easdale family adviser, Jack Irvine, said: “Sandy and James are actively pursuing the £400,000 awarded. ded.
“They will ll bankrupt him if necessary.
“Internet bullies need to understand they cannot cause distress to individuals, their heir friends and familyily by inventing lies and escape prosecution.”
The Easdales raised the damages action against Hendry at the Court of Session in Edinburgh in May. Hendry, of
Eastbourne, Sussex, was ordered to take down posts and videos carrying the derogatory claims and not repeat them.
He was summoned back to court after he repeated the allegations on social media in November and December.
At a hearing last month he was found guilty of contempt of court by Lord Braid. Hendry, who appeared via a video link and represented himself, apologised to the Easdales.
He told the court he was on benefits and is in arrears with a £ 1800- a- month mortgage, adding: “It looks like my house in going to be repossessed.”
Lord Braid deferred sentence on Hendry for six months.
None of the £400,000 has been paid so far to the Easdales, who own McGill’s Buses of Greenock.
In August, Hendry was found guilty of harassment at Wirral Magistrates’ M Court by using social media to wrongly accuse a local man, 40, of being a “drug and gun lord”. Hendry was fined £2502 and ordered to pay compensation.
In 2017, Sandy Easdale won a £200,000 case ca against John Houston, 38, of Greenock, who defamed him on social media by claiming his firms were involved in criminality.
Hendry declined to comment.
Internet bullies need to know they can’t lie and escape prosecution