Peaky Blinders costume designer locked in £40K libel battle with mother-in-law who claims she was branded a 'cruel and uncaring monster' on Facebook during row over son's estate
Daily MailThe mother-in-law of an award-winning costume designer is demanding more than £40,000 in libel damages over claims she was depicted as a 'cruel uncaring monster-in-law' in a Facebook post. Pictured: Yvonne Tattersall outside the High Court in London Lynette Tattersall claimed the statement made by her daughter-in-law had caused 'serious damage' to her reputation. Pictured: Lynette Tattersall seen wearing an all-white outfit Yvonne Tattersall claimed in the Facebook post that her mother-in-law had spread 'lies' about her in her Lancashire village, leading to her becoming an outcast. Lynette's barrister Lily Walker-Parr told Mr Justice Julian Knowles at the beginning of a High Court trial this week that Yvonne had blackened her mother-in-law's reputation in three ways with her Facebook post, by wrongly accusing her of trying to make her homeless, causing her to be ostracised and claiming she had lied. Setting out Yvonne's defence case, Lynette's barrister told the judge she 'advances a truth defence in respect of the homelessness meaning because the claimant sought an order for the sale of the property and if successful in the county court claim against the estate of Mr Tattersall the claimant would have been left without a home and bankrupt as she would not have had any inheritance or other financial means'.
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