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Tue 11 Nov 2009Photo of hanging man criticised
THE BRITISH Press Complaints Commission has received 70 complaints about the publication of a large picture of a man who took his own life by hanging on the front of Northern Irish editions of this weekend’s Sunday World.
The newspaper’s Northern Ireland editor, Jim McDowell, has defended his decision to publish the photo but apologised if it caused any distress. He said yesterday it was in the “public interest” to publish it. The body of the man was discovered at about 8am on Saturday suspended by a rope from a bridge at the Springhill flyover in Bangor, Co Down.
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