Ex-laird drops libel action

20 May 1999

Ex-laird drops libel action

THE former owner of the tiny Scottish island of Eigg has abandoned his libel action against two newspapers at a cost of around £750,000.

Englishman Keith Schellenberg, who owned Eigg for 20 years, had claimed that an article in The Guardian in July 1996 depicted him as a “playboy”.

He was also suing The Sunday Times.

• Ex-Laird of Eigg sues Guardian, FWi, 11 May, 1999
  

• The Guardian 20/05/99 page 1, page 6
  
• The Daily Telegraph 20/05/99 page 2 (News Bulletin)
• The Herald 20/05/99 page 1, page 4