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Publish, then verify

November 3, 2009 – 8:00 am

westaustralianZentai case: Allegations that Charles Zentai had stood over the bleeding, dying body of an 18-year-old Jewish man he bashed to death in Hungary in 1944 and described the noise of blood flooding his lungs as “music” (Killer in our midst? Agenda, page 23, October 31) are disputed by his family. Mr Zentai’s son Ernie Steiner claims several witnesses attributed the comment to another man, Captain Bela Mader, in statements presented at the officer’s trial in 1946 and this could be verified in court records.

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Return engagement

October 29, 2009 – 8:00 am

westaustralianHousing density: Cottesloe Mayor Kevin Morgan is concerned that “perfectly good houses” could be demolished to make way for high-density housing, not for high-rise, as we reported in our Inside State column (Home truths about housing crisis, page 21, October 28). The comment was taken in good faith from a previous story that contained the error, which was corrected at the time but the correction was not recorded in our archive. We regret repeating the error.

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Apology

October 26, 2009 – 8:00 am

westaustralianIn our report, Marlborough fined for lying to crime watchdog (page 1, October 23), we incorrectly stated that public servant Paul Frewer was found not guilty of giving false evidence to a Corruption and Crime Commission inquiry into the Smiths Beach development proposal.
Mr Frewer was never charged. The West Australian apologises for the error.

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