Rachel Riley has been awarded £10,000 damages after suing former Corbyn aide Laura Murray over a tweet.
The Countdown star, 35, has been awarded £10,000 in damages by a High Court judge after suing the former aide to Jeremy Corbyn for libel after she posted a scathing tweet more than two years ago.
The TV star sued Ms Murray over the 2019 tweet that called her 'dangerous' and 'stupid ' for an earlier post she had sent about the British politician.
Mr Justice Nicklin oversaw the London High Court case in May and today, the judge said Ms Riley was 'entitled to 'vindication'.
The dispute arose after an egg was thrown at Mr Corbyn by a Brexit supporter during a visit to Finsbury Park Mosque in North London in March 2019.
At the time, Rachel posted a screenshot of a January 2019 tweet by Guardian columnist Owen Jones about a 2009 egg attack on former British National Party leader Nick Griffin, which said: "I think sound life advice is, if you don't want eggs thrown at you, don't be a Nazi."
Alongside the screenshot, Rachel wrote: 'Good advice' - and she included an emoji of a red rose, which is the emblem of the Labour Party, and an emoji of an egg.
Following the TV presenter's tweet, ex-aide to Jeremy Corbyn, Laura Murray hit out at Rachel - calling her 'dangerous' and 'stupid'.
She tweeted: "Today Jeremy Corbyn went to his local mosque for Visit My Mosque Day, and was attacked by a Brexiteer. Rachel Riley tweets that Corbyn deserves to be violently attacked because he is a Nazi. This woman is as dangerous as she is stupid. Nobody should engage with her. Ever."
During a hearing at London's High Court back in May, Ms Murray she had read the Countdown star's tweet as applying the word Nazi to Mr Corbyn.
"That was absolutely 100% how I read it," she told the judge.
"Owen had tweeted about Nazis being attacked. She applied it to Jeremy Corbyn."
"I was just shocked and outraged by her tweet. My intention was to express my outrage."
Ms Murray went on: "The purpose of my tweet was to say to my followers, 'Don't engage with her. Don't get embroiled'."
However, Ms Riley said she was being sarcastic in her tweet and she did not call Mr Corbyn a Nazi.
The TV star also told the judge that Ms Murray’s tweet had caused serious harm to her reputation.
In her written statement, the star claimed Ms Murray's tweet also 'caused people to try to get me sacked from my job'.
"I believe she was aware of what she was doing. She was aware that she would encourage more hate," Rachel said.
The judge, Mr Justice Nicklin, previously ruled that Ms Murray's tweet was defamatory.
He was then asked to consider whether serious harm was caused to Ms Riley's reputation, and whether Ms Murray had a defence of truth, honest opinion or public interest.
Mr Justice Nicklin concluded that Ms Riley had demonstrated that Ms Murray’s tweet had caused serious harm to her reputation.
He found that both women had been truthful in the evidence they gave and had done their best to 'assist the court'.
