Web Summit boss Paddy Cosgrave disseminated a heavily edited recording of a phone call with former company director David Kelly in a bid to damage him, the High Court has been told. In the phone call, the chief executive accused Kelly of concealing for years “rank sexual abuse” which Kelly denied as a lie. However it is alleged that Kelly’s denials were edited out of a recording, Cosgrave sent to a number of Web Summit employees and other individuals including entrepreneur Pat Phelan and a founder of The Ditch news publication. The accusations were made in the opening address by…

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