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Lord Aldington, Tolstoy libel case victor, dies at 86
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LORD ALDINGTON, who won pounds 1.5m in a celebrated libel case
victory over Count Nikolai Tolstoy, died yesterday without collecting
the record damages.
The peer, who was blind and had been suffering from cancer, died
near his home in Kent. He was 86. He won the libel case in 1989 after
the Count claimed that he had the blood of "70,000 innocent men,
women and children on his hands".
Count Tolstoy, the great-nephew of the author of War and Peace,
had alleged that when Lord Aldi...
