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Butler Admit Having Sex With Princess Diana
30 November 2008
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A complaint made by former royal butler Paul Burrell over a tabloid story that claimed he boasted of having sex with Diana, Princess of Wales, has been upheld.
The News of the World's failure to include Burrell's denial may have misled readers, according to the Press Complaints Commission ruling, which was revealed today.
The complaint referred to the newspaper's front-page splash, headlined: "Burrell: I had sex with Diana".
The story centred on claims by Ron Cosgrove, Burrell's brother-in-law, that the former butler confided the secret to him in a pub in 1993.
The commission said there was a "strong likelihood" that the omission of any denial may have misled readers into believing that Burrell accepted Mr Cosgrove's allegations.
The News of the World said it had three sources for the story, all of whom had signed affidavits supporting their comments.
The newspaper said it had not approached Burrell prior to publication for fear he would block the story with an injunction.
The commission accepted there has "never been an absolute requirement for newspapers to contact those who are about to feature in articles", but said a failure to so "may constitute a lack of care".
The News of the World said it had failed to publish Burrell's denial after the story appeared because he was "a notorious liar" - as branded by the judge at the Diana inquest.
But the commission ruled that it "has never said that people have no right ever to comment on a story, or to be offered a right of reply, if they have misled people in another context".
It added: "It has never been an absolute requirement for newspapers to contact those who are about to feature in articles.
"[But] in this case the newspaper made the wrong decision and the complaint was upheld."
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