Just the facts

On it rumbles, this News of the World stuff, and I cannot for the life of me determine why! The law is quite clear that if I’m interested in somebody’s life then they lose their right of privacy until my curiosity is sated and I have enough material to fill my mental picture about how I imagine they live.

This is necessary. Without it, we get the following sort of error in The Sun- perfectly understandable as the man clearly wasn’t able to fully ascertain the facts in this particular tragedy and had to make some reasonable assumptions instead, poor sod!

"IN an article published on The Sun website on January 27 under the headline Gollum joker killed in live rail horror’ we incorrectly stated that Julian Brooker, 23, of Brighton, was blown 15ft into the air after accidentally touching a live railway line.

His parents have asked us to make clear he was not turned into a fireball, was not obsessed with the number 23 and didn’t go drinking on that date every month.

Julian’s mother did not say, during or after the inquest, her son often got on all fours creeping around their house pretending to be Gollum.

Also, quotes from a witness should have been attributed to Gemma Costin not Eva Natasha. We apologise for the distress this has caused Julian’s family and friends."