Sorry for calling you an “evil terrorist”

sun_uk3On 29 March and 1 April last year we reported that Mr Patel was an evil terrorist who had been jailed for his part in a transatlantic jet terror plot. While he had been convicted under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act of possessing material that might be useful to terrorists, the court accepted that he unwittingly held documents for a friend of his father. Mr Patel has never had any involvement with terrorism acts. We are happy to set the record straight and apologise to him. Link

  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Fark
  • NewsVine
  • SphereIt
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • FriendFeed
  • Twitter
This entry was written by Craig Silverman, posted on October 26, 2009 at 8:00 am, filed under Major Errors, Newspapers and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
  • He had been jailed and convicted under Section 58? But Mr. Patel is innocently having those documents? So then a suspect, even though convicted, cannot yet be proven a guilty. It's nice that the Sun admitted that error and Mr. Patel has been cleared-out. But still, media should take a great responsibility in providing people with just information. Sometimes errors cannot be corrected without a great wound.
blog comments powered by Disqus