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When did you last hear a news report you could trust completely? 

The media witch-hunt of Christopher Jeffries reminds us that in the rush to be first with information, compromises are being made

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

‘It put a lot upon us,’ said Christopher Jefferies’s aunt. ‘The ripples went on and did not stop for a long time.’ She was talking about the after-effects of the media witchhunt that skewered her nephew after his arrest in connection with the death of the Bristol landscape architect Joanna Yeates in December 2011.

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