6 November 1997 Edition
News of the World `beneath contempt'
Friends and family of Mairead Farrell are disgusted and furious at the totally unfounded allegations printed in the latest SAS tell tale book `Violent Delights'. In the book an ex-SAS officer claims he had a personal relationship with Mairead Farrell, who was one of three unarmed IRA Volunteers gunned down in Gibraltar in 1988.
Friends of Mairead are calling on people to boycott the News of the World. The London-based Sunday tabloid is publishing extracts from the book which have been described as ``slanderous claptrap'' by one personal friend of Mairead's. She added ``we are organising in defence of Mairead's memory because we knew her and respected her very deeply. All of this is in this man's sordid imagination and is a typically revolting attempt by this gutter rag to sell more papers. There is no way people will believe him. Just the same, we want people who come from the same community in which Mairead was held in such high regard to stop buying this paper as a form of protest, and out of this respect for this woman and her family, who must have been terribly hurt by this disgusting story''.
Friends of Mairead are calling on people to boycott the News of the World. The London-based Sunday tabloid is publishing extracts from the book which have been described as ``slanderous claptrap'' by one personal friend of Mairead's. She added ``we are organising in defence of Mairead's memory because we knew her and respected her very deeply. All of this is in this man's sordid imagination and is a typically revolting attempt by this gutter rag to sell more papers. There is no way people will believe him. Just the same, we want people who come from the same community in which Mairead was held in such high regard to stop buying this paper as a form of protest, and out of this respect for this woman and her family, who must have been terribly hurt by this disgusting story''.