This footage was filmed and produced 6 November 2023.

Naturalist and television presenter Chris Packham has been paid “substantial” damages after being accused of writing a “death threat letter to himself” in an article published on a website, a High Court judge has heard.

Mr Justice Griffiths was told that Mr Packham, 62, had sued Fieldsports Channel Ltd, and Andrew O’Rourke, after a June 2022 article said he had “dishonestly claimed” that the letter had been “sent to him by an anonymous third party”.

The judge heard at a High Court hearing – in the Royal Courts of Justice complex – in London on Monday that the parties had “agreed to resolve the claim”.

A lawyer representing Mr Packham said Fieldsports Channel Ltd, and Mr O’Rourke, had agreed to pay him “substantial damages”.