18 Sep 2019

England cricketer Ben Stokes blasts "lowest form of journalism"

From Morning Report, 7:40 am on 18 September 2019

England cricketer Ben Stokes has lashed out at the Sun newspaper for publishing a story on the murders of his half brother and sister in Christchurch in 1988. He criticised the tabloid for publishing what he called extremely painful, senstive and personal details. In a tweet Ben Stokes says for more than three decades his family has worked hard to deal with the private trauma inevitably associated with these events and has taken great care to keep private what were deeply personal and traumatic events. He has called the story "utterly disgusting" and the "lowest form of journalism" and goes on to say the story contains serious inaccuracies. We speak to the BBC's Henry Moeran.