30/8/22: A “notorious conman” has lost an Ofcom complaint against Sky News after he accused it of breaching his privacy.
The broadcaster reported in August last year on the conditions “serial fraudster” Mark Acklom faced upon his release from jail.
The news reports were accompanied by images that he claimed were “private family photographs”. His family members were obscured in the photos.
Acklom said the photos had been obtained without his knowledge or consent. Ofcom said he did have a legitimate expectation of privacy in relation to these photos but that this “did not, on balance, outweigh the broadcaster’s right to freedom of expression and the public interest in including the material in the programme in which the family photographs appeared”.
Ofcom also said Acklom did not have a legitimate expectation of privacy in relation to a photo of him on a plane during his extradition to the UK in 2019.
Read the full Ofcom ruling here.
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