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April 5, 2013

PCC: That’s Life breached Editors’ Code by making payment to sister of murderer

By Press Gazette

Real life weekly magazine That’s Life has been censured by the Press Complaints Commission after paying the sister of a murderer for her story.

Treena McIntyre complained to the PCC over a story about the murder of her brother Steven McIntyre by his stepson Christopher Hodgson.

The magazine argued that Ms Hodgson was a “victim” of the crime and that it did not seek to glorify or glamorise the murder.

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