Crowds welcome Johnny Depp in Glasgow after he wins defamation suit

Depp will join Beck onstage at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall on Friday.

It comes as Depp was awarded compensatory damages of $10m (£8m) and a further $5m (£4m) in punitive damages in his highly-publicised defamation trial against Heard.

Depp sued the Aquaman actress for $50m over a 2018 article she wrote for The Washington Post in which she described herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse”.

The article does not mention Depp by name, however his legal team said it falsely implied he abused the actress while they were together – the jury unanimously agreed.

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Heard will “absolutely” be appealing the decision in the US defamation case, her lawyer has said.

Elaine Bredehoft said the Aquaman star has “excellent grounds” for the appeal as there was “so much” evidence that was not included during the trial.

Depp had previously lost a similar trial in the UK which he brought against the publisher of The Sun newspaper after an article, also written in 2018, which referred to him as a “wife-beater”.

Although on Wednesday the jury awarded Depp damages of $15m dollars, in a separate verdict, Heard was awarded $2m dollars (£1.6 million) in damages after her counterclaim against him over comments made by his lawyer Adam Waldman, who allegedly referred to her abuse claims as a “hoax”, was found to be defamatory.