PCC rejects complaint over Jan Moir column about Stephen Gately's death
Commission rules that censuring 'uncomfortable' remarks would represent 'a slide towards censorship'The Press Complaints Commission has rejected a complaint from the partner of Stephen Gately, the Boyzone singer who died suddenly in October, over an article by the Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir.The PCC received more than 25,000 complaints, a record number, after Moir wrote about Gately's death, describing events leading up to it as "sleazy" and "less than respectable".The article, published on 16...
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