London - British author David Irving, branded a racist and Holocaust denier by a judge last month, was ordered by a court yesterday to start paying off £2 million of legal costs. Mr Irving was told to make a down payment of £150,000 to Penguin Books by June 16th following his failed libel action against the publisher and US writer, Ms Deborah Lipstadt.
Lawyers for Penguin, publisher of Ms Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, told Justice Charles Gray that the company had already paid out £1 million to defence experts called during the libel case in April.