3/3/22: IPSO dismissed complaints against five news sites made by Keith Brewerton, father of Aled Brewerton, a one-time councillor for Handforth Parish Council who resigned his position following a Zoom brouhaha with Cheshire Association of Councils chief executive Jackie Weaver. Both men featured in the resulting viral video, with the younger Brewerton in particular becoming infamous for calling for Weaver to “read the standing orders”.
Keith Brewerton complained that videos of the altercation posted by the sites had been misleadingly cut, that because the Brewertons had been in their homes in the footage their privacy had been breached, that the recording had been made clandestinely and illegally and was thus harassment, and that the video intruded into grief or shock. IPSO dismissed all complaints against all five websites. (Full rulings here for The Sun, The Express, The Telegraph, Liverpool Echo, and the Daily Record)
Update 10/3/22: IPSO dismissed complaints made against mirror.co.uk and Mail Online by Brewerton over their reporting of the same incident. (Full rulings here for the Mirror and Mail)
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