A trial of preliminary issues on meaning will take place today before Mrs Justice Collins Rice in respect of an article published in The Sun (online and in print) in June 2024 concerning Stephen Belafonte, the ex-husband of singer Melanie Brown (‘Mel B’).
Mr Belafonte contends that the article accuses him of, in summary, harassing Ms Brown during a visit to the UK with his daughter, by flying a drone over her home and causing her to be visited by a process server despite her being represented by lawyers, which also intimidated her.
5RB’s Gervase de Wilde and Lily Walker-Parr appear for Mr Belafonte, instructed by Cohen Davis Solicitors.