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December 1, 2022updated 05 Dec 2022 10:32am

Hacked Off: Have press standards improved ten years on from Leveson? Not if you ask the public

Ten years on from the Leveson Report, Hacked Off chief executive Nathan Sparkes on IPSO and press behaviour.

By Nathan Sparkes

On 19 February 2020, 20-year-old Anisha Vidal-Garner was heading home in the evening. Crossing a road she was hit by a speeding car, which had run through several red lights. She died at the scene.

This tragic and shocking event happened to be captured by the CCTV camera of a local corner-shop. Reporters from Mail Online subsequently bought the footage in order to publish it to millions of readers on its website.

The police pleaded with the newspaper not to publish. The Mail did so anyway. Anisha’s mother, Mandy Garner, was given precisely one hour’s notice that the last moments of her daughter’s life were to be published online as clickbait.

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