Prank DJ ‘should have tried harder’

One of the Australian DJs who made a prank call to the hospital where Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge was being treated during her pregnancy has admitted she "should have tried harder" to stop the call going to air.

Mel Greig revealed she and her family had received death threats after the hoax was linked to the death of nurse Jacintha Saldanha, and said she felt she had been living a “stranger’s life” since the controversy.

Speaking to the Sunday Night programme on Australia’s Channel 7 network, she said: “When this first happened, I absolutely blamed myself, 100%.