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This is the moment a radio presenter compared the reviled former S*n editor Kelvin MacKenzie to a ‘cornered rat.’

Jamies O’Brien, journalist and presenter on national talk show LBC, has been applauded online after taking to the airwaves to turn both barrels on the ‘despicable’ S*n columnist.

In a radio show about the Hillsborough inquests drawing to a close, and the behaviour of certain parties in the wake of the rulings, the broadcaster compared MacKenzie and Rupert Murdoch to a ‘mafia.’

He said: “Unless you see it as a mafia operation, where the Capo di Capi rewards his henchmen for doing his bidding. It’s the only possible explanation of it.

Speaking of the despised columnist’s recent piece where he joked about becoming ‘Lord Mckenzie of Anfield’, he added: “He still has a column in The S*n. It’s absolutely unbelievable.

“Six months ago he was still joking about it. Still joking about it in his column. Joking about how he could be ‘Lord MacKenzie of Anfield’.”

O’Brien then went on to slate both The Times and The S*n, who failed to mention the results of the Hillsborough inquest on their front pages.

He said: “The newspaper that claims credit for selecting prime ministers, and the newspaper that still sells more than any other in the land.

“It goes to print on a day like today without mentioning this story on its front page. That is the most perfect illustration of the contempt in which that class of people hold the truth, and you.

“What do you really think of the British public Mr Murdoch,?” he asked.

The show came after MacKenzie today said he was “duped” in a fresh video interview posted online by the BBC.

Instead of apologising, MacKenzie blamed a news agency for supplying him with false information.

He said: “I was completely duped. It came from an agency.

“They said they were senior police officers, they said it was the head of the ambulance service, they said it was a Tory MP.

“They all said it was the fans. It’s quite clear today the fans had nothing to do with it.

“It was an absolute shocker for me personally but also the only people that really matter in all this are the victims and their families who exist today. My heart goes out to them.”