Event Description

Ross Gow discusses media and financial pressure tactics in response to Daily Mail coverage. He characterizes an unnamed editor ('Maz') as 'the most devious and cunning of the bunch' and explains that editors can pay for people, stories, and documents in the public interest, citing the Yorkshire Ripper case as an example of limitations on criminal stories. He references PCC (Press Complaints Commission) Code for Editors provisions on witness payments in criminal trials, suggesting discussion of how media financing of stories relates to the ongoing situation.

Quoted Evidence

“Maz is the most devious and cunning of the bunch. However, Editors can pay for people, stories and documents. They can even pay criminals if it is in the public interest.”

Trafficking Assessment