One Direction's Niall Horan has won a round in his libel case over articles which he says meant he used hard drugs during an evening with fellow musicians Justin Bieber and Cody Simpson.
The boyband star has sued Express Newspapers over articles which appeared in the Daily Star in July this year. He claims they were defamatory because they meant that during an evening spent with Bieber and Simpson he had used hard drugs - crystal meth or crack. The banner headline was "new drug storm", the article reported that Horan was "staring blankly" and there was express reference to "rumours the singers were using hard drugs".
