Tabloids fined for contempt

THE DAILY MIRROR was fined £50,000 (€57,200) and The Sun £18,000 (€20,600) for contempt of court over publication of articles following the arrest of a suspect by police investigating the killing of 25-year-old landscape architect Joanna Yeates.

Tabloids fined for contempt

Three judges at the High Court handed out the penalties to the publishers of the two tabloid newspapers.

The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge ruled that the newspapers breached contempt laws in reports about Yeates’s landlord, Christopher Jefferies.

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