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		</div><p>This is the first mugshot of Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood who has been found guilty of tampering with evidence in the collapsed drugs trial of pop star Tulisa Contostavlos.</p>
<p>After a two-week trial at the Old Bailey, a jury found the 53-year-old “King of the Sting” – as well as his driver, Alan Smith, 67 – guilty of plotting to pervert the course of justice.</p>
<p>It was announced after the verdict that 18 civil claims were being launched against Mahmood which could total some £800 million – a figure that would “dwarf” those brought following the phone-hacking scandal, according to media lawyer Mark Lewis.</p>
<p>Contostavlos had been accused of arranging for Mahmood – who made sure to keep his face hidden as he left court – to be sold £800 of cocaine by one of her contacts following an elaborate sting for the Sun on Sunday in May 2013.</p>
<p>They had met at the Metropolitan Hotel in London where Mahmood, who posed as a film producer, discussed a role in a Hollywood film alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.</p>
<p>As Smith drove the former X Factor judge home to Hertfordshire, she allegedly spoke about a family member who had a drugs problem.</p>
<p>When he was interviewed by police about the journey more than a year later, Smith recalled the conversation. But a day later – after speaking to Mahmood and emailing his draft statement – the singer’s anti-drugs comments were removed, the court heard.</p>
<p>After her case collapsed in July 2014, Contostavlos claimed to reporters she had been the victim of “a horrific and disgusting entrapment”.</p>
<p>For more than 25 years, Mahmood has enjoyed a position as “King of the Sting” at the now defunct News of the World, Sunday Times and Sun on Sunday, with Smith as his “right-hand man”.</p>
<p>Mahmoud has been suspended by News UK since the collapse of the Tulisa trial.</p>
<p>Neither defendant reacted as the guilty verdicts were delivered. Judge Gerald Gordon adjourned sentencing until October 21 and allowed the defendants continued bail.<br />
Mahmood declined to comment on leaving court.</p>
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