Nicola Talent

But I'll try and explain maybe why I think this is a story in the public interest.

So there's a lawyer called Paul Tweed who would be a pretty famous, almost celebrity lawyer.

He's from Northern Ireland, yeah?

He's from Northern Ireland.

He's got this sort of celebrity status because he had very high profile clients, celebrity clients.

And there was a kind of a sense, certainly over a period of time, that anybody who had felt they had been either hard done by or libeled by the media, they would go to tweet.

So anybody famous and there's a list the length of your arm about who he represented.

And he was somebody who...

within media organisations, if a letter came in from Tweed representing somebody, there was a sense of a bit of a chill factor to it at one point.

Absolutely.

Because, you know, this was like, you know, coming from

you know, a high profile lawyer, but you knew the client was going to be somebody very wealthy.

Yes.

Paul Tweed was not representing, you know, somebody, some unemployed... Well, I'll give you a list of some of the people he's represented.

Exactly.

So there was this kind of combination of Paul Tweed plus this very powerful, very rich client coming at the media.

So that was kind of...

who Tweed was, his reputation.

I think kind of in more recent years, he's probably working more so out of the country, in the Middle East, and he has clients and all the rest of it.

But this story is basically, and it's set after this conviction you speak about that Epstein had.