Ex-Daily Star reporter Richard Peppiatt on quitting and criticising the newspaper

Police are understood to be investigating a claim that a journalist who resigned from the Daily Star has become the victim of harassment.

Mr Peppiatt resigned from the 'paper last week in protest at what he believes is their 'anti-Muslim hate-mongering'. He said he regularly made up quotes and sometimes entire stories for the newspaper.

"I knew it wasn't very good journalism. However, it was my job," he tells Victoria Derbyshire.

In a statement, the Daily Star said: "Richard Peppiatt worked purely as a casual reporter at the Daily Star for almost two years. Recently he became unhappy after he was passed over for several staff positions.

"He refers to a Kelly Brook story: in fact, he approached and offered the newspaper that story, vouched for its accuracy, and then asked for and received an extra freelance fee for doing so. Since he wrote his email we have discovered that he was privately warned very recently by senior reporters on the paper after suggesting he would make up quotes.

"Regarding the allegations over the paper's coverage of Islam, he was only ever involved in a very minor way with such articles, and never voiced either privately or officially any disquiet over the tone of the coverage. For the record, the Daily Star editorial policy does not hold any negativity towards Islam and the paper has never, and does not endorse, the EDL."

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