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If this is justice, I am a banana.

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Statement to the press outside court, following losing a libel action brought by Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper" (24 May 1989), quoted in UPI article and Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations p. 154

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