Paula Murray is an idiot update updated
Courtesy of Adam on Twitter, Paula Murray’s revolting Dunblane story in the Express has been pulled from the website. You can still read the filth in Google’s cache however. Adam says the Press Complaints Commission is now looking into it.
In other news Gerry McCann has been speaking to the Commons culture, media and sport committee today. You may recognise the newspaper publisher who more than any made the McCann’s already hellish lives even worse…
Asked by the committee why he and his family only took action against a single newspaper group, McCann said that Express Newspapers were the biggest offenders by some distance but they could have easily sued more publishers. “That was not what we were interested in, we were interested in putting a stop to it first and foremost,” McCann said.
The McCanns launched a libel action against Express Newspapers for more than 100 articles that appeared in its newspapers.
A year ago, Express Newspapers published front-page apologies in the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday to the McCann family and paid them £550,000 in libel damages over coverage of Madeleine’s disapperance.
Flanked by his legal representatives, Adam Tudor of Carter-Ruck, and press representative Clarence Mitchell, McCann told MPs that it became a cause for concern that he was in dispute with Express Newspapers when the Express editor Peter Hill was sitting on the board of the press watchdog. Hill subsequently left the PCC board.
“I did think it was surprising that the editor of the paper that had so flagrantly libelled us could be a representative of the PCC,” McCann said.
Express Newspaper’s owner Richard Desmond is a pornographer.
Update March 11: Thanks to Adam the Tory Troll, we now have PDF scans of the newspaper articles. You can download them here and here. You’ll especially enjoy the section that didn’t make it online. It’s about the ‘good’ victims of Dunblane. Nice to see them get a mention for a bit of contrast, no?




