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However awful Jan Moir might be, she's not criminal
The Channel 4 Newsroom Twitterfeed has just published this:
Jan Moir's Daily Mail newspaper column about Stephen #Gately's death offended some readers but did not break the law - CPS ruling.
Which seems to be a fair ruling, and does make you wonder why public funds were spent considering the bleeding obvious. She's a homophobic affront to public decency, but if that was a crime... well, actually, the idea of Moir being shut in a cell refusing to watch the television and spitting in her own food to try and stop herself from feeling like she was in a holiday camp is an appealing one. But only a fantasy.
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There was never a question of whether she 'broke the law', was there? The question was whether she breached any sections of the Editors' Code of Practice, as regulated by the PCC - which, as far as I'm aware, is supposed to protect against things like homophobia and affronts to public decency.
I could be wrong.
Personally, I don't think there was any question that what she did was legal, if unpleasant. But there were formal complaints made to the police, and the Crown Prosecution Service did consider if there were grounds for a legal prosecution (as well as the complaints to the PCC):
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5iKein_CvZ_ovLM8ST9LUFthyhlJQ
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