High court judge rules Nina Cresswell’s account of Billy Hay’s attack is true on the balance of probabilities
A woman who wrote about being sexually assaulted, naming her attacker, has defeated a libel action he brought against her after a judge ruled that her account was true on the balance of probabilities.
Nina Cresswell was sued by Billy Hay over a blog and social media posts she wrote in 2020, as the #MeToo movement exploded, saying that he violently assaulted her 10 years earlier. She said Hay, a well-known tattooist, attacked her when she was aged 20 as she walked home from a nightclub in Sunderland where they had met earlier that evening.
