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A new blockbuster investigation by the British newspaper Daily Mail has uncovered what it calls “a benchmark for a modern culture of ‘witch-hunt’ persecutions.”
The paper conducted a “wide-ranging” inquiry into decades-old abuse allegations at a Catholic institution made by clients of abuse lawyer David Greenwood. Greenwood recently collected a national “Personal Injury Lawyer of the Year” prize, but now the Daily Mail is calling him an “ambulance chaser.”
After studying claims made against workers at the now-defunct St. William’s School, an institution for troubled youth once run by the De La Salle Brotherhood, the paper’s investigation concluded that “lives of innocent ex-staff members have been blighted by repeated false accusations” and “palpably false abuse accusations were generated by promises of compensation” by Greenwood.
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