Legal bid at photo of dead woman in horror

The family of a 66-year-old woman who was found dead after being missing for over a week last year has launched a High Court action after her photograph was used in a Hollywood horror movie.

A picture of pensioner Stacia Purcell, the High Court heard, was used in the horror film Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort, which her family’s lawyer described as a “grotesque, graphically violent film, which contains scenes of a pornographic nature.”

The photograph of Ms Purcell was given by her family and issued to the press to assist in the search for her when she went missing in October 2013. Now, her family, who were only told of the movie by neighbours, have gone to the High Court to stop the use of the picture of Ms Purcell, “a beloved mother and grandmother”, in the movie.