“If this is justice, I am a banana.”

Statement to the press outside court, following losing a libel action brought by Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", on 24 May 1989, quoted in UPI article http://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/06/05/If-this-is-justice-I-am-a-banana/2768613022400/ and Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rjLTsncFKCgC&pg=PA154

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Satirical comedian, Editor, Television and radio presenter 1960

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