ALT The acute embarrassment of having to fork out 3/4 of a million pounds due to entirely libelous, allegations by the Cook Report resulted in Central Televisions damage limitation propaganda. After Roger Cook's failure in court journos were told that the Taped Crusader had made 800 programmes and that C.T.V had 'absolute faith' in him. The implication was that the errors in Bullied to Death were an exception. But as we have seen they were not that much of an exception. Cook retorted that 'it was the only settlement of any size awarded against him in 25 years of investigative broadcasting.' What he failed to say was that Central TV had forced the issue to court and gone part-way through a High Court trial before coming to an agreement when it became obvious that his claims could not be substantiated.

ALT 'When the Cook Report depicted me as selling dead bodies and organising Satanic Ritual Child Abuse the public were rightly shocked. They wanted my blood and some of them firebombed my shop because of it; but experienced Cook Report observers saw it as 'entertainment'. The Cook Report were careful not to actually allege what their on-screen inferences clearly inferred. They had not actually said anywhere in their programme that I was involved in Satanic Child Abuse because I wasn't - it was all falsehood. If they had made those criminal accusations I would have slapped them with a writ but their allegations on-screen had been carefully phrased and because of that I could do nothing but keep on insisting on the truth and pointing up their dishonourable actions over the years. The Broadcasting Complaints Commission who looked into the matter saw this and castigated The Cook Report for not making it clear in their report that I was not involved in any form of child abuse.'