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October 13, 2020updated 30 Sep 2022 9:40am

BBC’s Newsnight condemned by Ofcom over ‘very serious’ privacy intrusion after showing journalist’s dying moments

By Dominic Ponsford

Ofcom has upheld a complaint against Newsnight over the broadcast of
images which appeared to show the murdered journalist Lyra McKee in her
dying moments.

The BBC programme showed mobile phone footage which focused on her as
she lay on the ground at the centre of a crowd of people with her shoes
visible.

Ms McKee, 29, was shot dead by dissident republicans in Londonderry in
April 2019 as she observed rioting in the Creggan area of the city.

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