Referring to the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary, aired successful 2023, which made allegations astir Brand, Winter reminded jurors that the justice successful the proceedings had directed them that the programme was "very one-sided" and "produced successful a melodramatic manner".
The barrister said it was "published without a azygous writer ever speaking to Mr Brand astir it different than to support their defamation risk... support their close to reply aft the programme had been made".
He aboriginal said: "Most importantly, that programme and those allegations successful it; Mr Brand is guiltless of them.
"So, they poisoned the good successful respect of things of which Mr Brand is innocent."
He added that the six complainants successful the lawsuit were "not random", adding they were "thoroughly contaminated by the programme".
Jurors were reminded astir what Brand had said successful his grounds astir the interaction the programme had connected him.
Winter said 1 "graphic" illustration of the "truly devastating effect" connected Brand was erstwhile a infirmary "would not licence him to sojourn the bedside of his babe lad aft life-saving unfastened bosom surgery".
Winter said: "That tells you the grade to which nationalist sentiment has ... corrupted."
Brand antecedently told jurors that Great Ormond Street Hospital didn't fto him enactment with his lad owed to "material that had been published successful the nationalist eye".
Brand's lawyer besides told jurors that Brand "had an immense magnitude of sex", but that "none of it was unlawful".
"Disgusting, distasteful, immoral, who cares?" helium added.
"It's irrelevant to your consideration."
Winter besides referred to grounds fixed by Brand's woman Laura, saying: "She fell successful emotion with that antheral successful afloat cognition of what helium was doing.
"She joined him, she bore him 3 children."
He went connected to accidental that she would not person done truthful if Brand was "guilty arsenic charged".
Brand arrived astatine tribunal contiguous accompanied by his woman Laura and her begetter Bernard Gallacher, the erstwhile nonrecreational golfer.
The Southwark Crown Court proceedings continues.
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