The Daily Mail Group needs to be held to account for protecting a sexual predator

Content warning: sexual assault

For many months, Good Law Project has been working to help a young man who has been denied justice after he was sexually assaulted by a star journalist at the Daily Mail.

The young man, who works for the publisher of the Mail, and who we shall call X, was groped by the journalist, whom we are naming only as J.

The Daily Mail Group has previously received a complaint of sexual assault by J from at least one other young man. It knows he has sent unwanted sexual messages to at least one other young man. These are not the only victims of J to whom Good Law Project has spoken. And reports of J’s sexual misconduct have been circulating for well over a decade: it is an open secret.

When Good Law Project first got involved, the Daily Mail Group had run an “investigation”, dismissing X’s complaint without even interviewing him. It’s easy to behave this way when you’re dealing with someone who doesn’t have the money to take you on. It feels more important to protect “the talent” than to protect the junior colleagues they prey upon.

This was how the Observer behaved when we confronted it with a number of complaints about Nick Cohen’s sexual misconduct. And you might also remember the BBC being hammered in a front page of 2 December 2024 that said: “BBC was warned 4 times about Wallace” in, yes, the Daily Mail.

It’s standard conduct because the victims can’t afford to tool up.

But Good Law Project has hired for X an expert team led by one of the foremost employment law KCs in the country. And, having learned of Good Law Project’s involvement, the Daily Mail Group has at last started to change its tune.

But it’s too little too late. 

We want justice for X – and in a public and open forum. J needs to be named. And we want the Mail held to account for protecting a serial sexual predator.

So we have helped X start proceedings against both the Daily Mail and J himself in the Employment Tribunal for disability discrimination, whistleblowing and victimisation.

We plan to publish his ‘Grounds of Claim’ and the names of X and J just as soon as we can. But meanwhile we need your help – taking on the might of the Mail is going to be very expensive.

Please, if you’d like to see them held to account, we need your help. 

If you’ve suffered sexual misconduct at the Daily Mail Group, you can get in touch with us securely.