Former gay porn star Mickey Taylor was ordered by the High Court in London to pay more than £100,000 damages to Dominic Ford after falsely accusing him of sexual assaulting Tannor Reed on Twitter and YouTube. Dominic Ford just shared this message on his social media.
Today is a significant day, as the verdict in my trial against Mickey Taylor has been handed down and I won. The total amount, including damages and legal fees awarded to me by the court is almost £310,000. I took Mickey to court after he falsely accused me of a grievous act, claiming I had assaulted Tannor Reed.
During the trial, both Tannor and Mickey gave evidence. The judge, after thorough examination, found their testimonies to be untrue. He firmly stated he didn’t find Mickey’s allegations against me credible. The claims about any wrongdoing on my part were not only unfounded but deliberately misleading. Mickey and Tannor were changing their stories, making up new stories that were empirically proven to be false, and even trying to obfuscate the timeline of events to try and make their false narratives make sense.
As I sought truth and justice, it was crucial for me that every voice was heard, every side had its say, and that the process was transparent. And in the end, the verdict vindicated me completely and unreservedly.
It’s important to note that false allegations, like those I’ve faced from Mickey Taylor and Tannor Reed, risk clouding the real issues many people in our community face every day. It is paramount to both support genuine victims, but also to ensure their authenticity.
To those who’ve known me and supported me throughout, my gratitude is boundless. To those who had reservations or believed the false claims, I hold no animosity. We live in a time where it’s critical to support real victims, and wanting to believe someone’s distress is noble. But my ordeal underscores the necessity of separating truth from deception.
The damage to my company and to my reputation has been done. But now I’m glad for everyone to see that none of the claims were ever true.
I’m thankful to the court for vindicating me and I also want to thank to my dedicated legal team, headed by Cohen Davis Solicitors.
I hope now to be able to put this episode behind me and continue my 15+ years of work strengthening our community, fighting for our rights, empowering our collective entrepreneurialism and combating discrimination both within and against our industry.
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HenRex says
Not going to take sides in this, but I am going to state for the record that defamation lawsuits in the UK do have reverse burden of proof; meaning that you are guilty until proven innocent — unlike in the rest of the Western democratic world.
Therefore it is also not a surprise that most UK defamation lawsuits end with a “guilty” verdict, as is the case here, simply because it is in this case Mickey Taylor who needs to prove that what he said was true.
The case for not having reverse burden of proof is that it limits substantially freedom of speech. UK newspapers need to be 100% certain of what they publish, otherwise they might end up having to pay damages, because they are assumed to be lying in a UK defamation court — the paper needs to prove what they write is true. All the scheming, corrupt politician / police boss needs to do is sue the paper — in a UK court of “justice”, the paper would be assumed to be lying/guilty until the paper proves itself — which of course is very hard if you have secret sources, as newspapers do.
HenRex says
And probably this is also why tabloids are huge in the UK, because all it revolves around is photographic evidence, but relatively little to no newsworthiness. They really don’t say a lot, they just show it.
Jim says
Can UK courts actually force Taylor to pay the almost $400,000? Cause in the US when a court gives a ridiculous sum of money to a plaintiff from a defendant who has no money nor earns that kind of money its really a case of good luck collecting that money. Its really only a symbolic victory if like I said the defendant does not have money.
Sylvan Twarp says
I do believe you have taken sides in this, and it is quite obvious.
Danny says
You should need proof before accusing a person of a horrible act. I have no idea what all parties involved did or didn’t do. However, if you say something, you need to be able to back it up!
Sylvan Twarp says
These idiots who think they can accuse and try someone in the Court of Twitter based upon crap evidence that is most likely all in their empty heads deserve all of the scorn that can be heaped upon their tawdry heads!