libel laws have such a weird amount of variation by country

amerikkka: you can say anything about anyone and as long as you don't have a lot to gain from it and a vault of evidence that you knew you were lying, it's fine

ukkk: if you say disparaging stuff you sure better be able to prove that it's not just rhetoric.

japan: you cannot say provably true things about other people if it looks bad for them, even if the true things are about how they've hurt others.

i agree with other posters that could have and should have taken ownership of the sun and the daily mail for what they did to him.