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June 21, 2016

Sun apologises to hypnotist Paul McKenna over report that he was drunk and abusive on Barbados flight

By Dominic Ponsford

The Sun has apologised to hypnotist Paul McKenna over an article which alleged he was drunk on a flight.

It has now accepted that the entertainer was in fact suffering from food poisoning.

Press regulator IPSO has upheld a complaint from the entertainer but ruled that an offer already made by The Sun, to publish an apology for the article, was sufficient remedy. The apology will appear on page two, the original article was on page three.
IPSO has rejected a complaint from McKenna that a Sun journalist engaged in subterfuge by wrongly suggesting he had a tape of the incident in question. The Sun journalist had a recording of a witness account of the incident.

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