'Vindictive' NHS trust pursues journalist

Spare a thought, fellow journalists, for Robin Ackroyd. He imagined he had finally won a court victory in January by protecting his source for a story published six years ago in the Daily Mirror about the treatment of Moors murderer Ian Brady in Ashworth Hospital, part of the Mersey Care NHS trust. But the trust won't give up and this week it asked the Appeal Court to overturn the previous court decision. Ackroyd has already made it clear that his journalistic career has been wrecked by the case and it's no wonder he regards the continuing legal pursuit of him as "vindictive." Can't the trust understand? Ackroyd isn't going to reveal his source, and that's it. (Via The Times)