Daily Mail Mistaken CSA ID General Features

ByCBG Reading Time: 1 minute

The Daily Mail published and updated its view on the mistaken identification of the wrong politician in the North Wales child abuse scandal last Friday, updating it on Monday 12th November. That article is here.  This first article from last week was not the hatchet job on Stephen Messham implied by one of the Independent on Sunday’s articles linked earlier from The Mail On Sunday. That one, unfortunately, is here. Unlike the Independent’s coverage, The Mail on Sunday conveniently failed to mention that at least one of the people on Twitter who accused the wrong politician, was married to a staff member of Parliament. We imagine that they will catch up and report this fact when the Tweeters get sued, as promised by the falsely accused politician.

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