Sky News and ITV have been told by UK media regulator Ofcom that they must “explain their actions” after the family of a dead mother said the broadcasters intruded on their privacy as they grieved.
News of Nicola Bulley’s disappearance has gripped the nation this month after the 45-year-old mortgage adviser vanished on January 27 while walking along a river.
A body was recovered from the River Wyre on Sunday and, a day later, Lancashire Police confirmed that it had been identified as Bulley.
Her family issued a statement alongside the police confirmation, in which they directly criticized Sky News and ITV for contacting them in the period between the body being discovered and formal identification. “We tried last night to take in what we had been told in the day, only to have Sky News and ITV making contact with us directly when we expressly asked for privacy,” the family said. “They again, have taken it upon themselves to run stories about us to sell papers and increase their own profiles.
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