If you have come here because of the Guardian’s link, thank you.

While you're here, please read our report linked at the end of this story about the Paradise Papers.

We’d also like to point out that far from the Guardian’s assertion that there was "nothing in the local media, at least, to indicate the island was the eye of an international storm that has swept across Europe and the US", the Isle of Man Examiner (printed before the "revelations" from the Guardian and Panorama) had a page on the story.

The following Manx Independent had three pages on the Paradise Papers and its lead story (continued on page 2, with a separate story about Margaret Hodge’s threat to the island) was about the potential effect on the Isle of Man’s VAT agreement with the UK.

Here's the story to which the Guardian originally linked:

A Douglas man has admitted assaulting a woman and spitting at police.

Mark William Thomas Bell, of York Road, pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm, assaulting a police officer and being drunk and disorderly.

Bell has been committed to the Court of General Gaol Delivery for sentencing and he will appear there on November 20.

Prosecutor Michael Jelski told magistrates last week how, on August 18, police were called to an address in Barrule Road, Douglas, after a report of Bell refusing to leave the property.

Police found Bell at the house semi-conscious and barely able to stand.

An ambulance was called but while police waited for it to arrive Bell was said to have become abusive and started struggling with officers.

He spat at one officer with the spittle landing on his clothing and was subsequently charged with being drunk and disorderly.

A second charge of assaulting a police officer was withdrawn.

In a separate incident, on October 19 at around midnight, police were called to an address in York Road, Douglas, after a report of a woman being assaulted there.

Bell was said to have held the woman by the hair and banged her face against the kitchen counter, then bitten her nose.

Police attended the address and while he was being arrested the court heard that Bell was again said to have spat at police, this time in the face of one officer.

When he was at police headquarters his aggressive behaviour continued, as he said to one police officer: ’I know your face. I’m going to rape your daughter.’

He was charged with assault causing actual bodily harm and assaulting a police officer.

A third charge of possessing drugs was withdrawn by the prosecution.

Defending Bell in court, his advocate Ian Kermode agreed that the case should go up to the higher court for sentencing.