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December 14, 2010

Journalists win right to name parents charged over death of child

By Sam Francis

Two regional journalists have successfully overturned a court order preventing the naming of parents charged with the death of their child.

Arguing that details of the case were already in the public domain Ed Walker and Julia McWatt, of Trinity Mirror’s Media Wales, overturned a Section 39 court order in Cardiff Crown Court on Wednesday.

The order had been put in place to prevent any details of a girl whose seven-year-old twin brother died in a house fire during the summer being published.

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