Newspapers ‘scapegoats’ over Madeleine
Richard Desmond told the Leveson Inquiry that his titles were “the only honest ones and straightforward ones” for the way they printed a front-page apology to the missing girl’s parents and paid them £550,000 (€657,484) in a libel settlement.
He hit out at a former head of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) for criticising Daily Express editor Peter Hill over the paper’s reporting of the case in more than 100 articles.
