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October 16, 2017

Belfast Telegraph apologises over pictures taken at child’s funeral without consent of family

By Dominic Ponsford

The Belfast Telegraph has apologised after a complaint that a photographer hid in a churchyard to get a picture of a child’s coffin entering a church.

The child’s godmother Shauna O’Neill complained to press regulator IPSO on behalf of her mother Bridgina Kinney saying the title breached the following clauses of the Editors’ Code:

She said the journalist then proceeded uninvited into the church, where he was asked to leave by those attending.

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