IRVING
CLAIMS E-MAIL SUPPORT AFTER COURT DEFEATHISTORIAN David Irving told yesterday how he
had received hundreds of supportive e-mails since a
humiliating court High Court libel defeat in which he was
branded a racist. "Over the last 24 hours or so since the
judgement came out I have had 322 e-mails from all over
the world -- I was up to 4 am reading through them --
from people who have read my books and are saying 'What
on earth is going on here, Mr. Irving?"'
The support came after his libel action
against Professor Deborah Lipstadt (right) and
Penguin books ended in the judge calling him an
anti-semite, leaving him facing financial ruin, Mr.
Irving (62) told BBC News. But Professor Lipstadt also
said, "Whatever David Irving says - I listened to him for
32 days in court and have read his books - and the judge
said this too, you have to treat whatever he says with a
tremendous grain of salt and a tremendous question mark.
So I am not so worried about how many 'hits' he says he
has got."