Press Complaint Council public apology

For those with a memory, you may recall the furore about the BNP and their maligning of the Gurkha soldiers. Here is the reply from the Press Complaints Council - expedited..

Thank you for your email regarding the article in the Sun headlined “BNP sickos slur hero Gurkha”.

We have now completed our investigation into this matter. The complaint was resolved following the publication of the following correction

We have been asked to make clear by Adam Walker, a British National Party candidate in the recent European elections, that an election leaflet criticising the rights of Gurkhas to stay in the UK and featuring Corporal Kumar Pun, recently killed in action, was not published by Mr Walker or issued by his party as we stated on May 18. (Cl 1)

Mr Walker has accepted this in resolution of his complaint and the file has been closed on that basis.

Yours sincerely

Simon Yip

simon.yip@pcc.org.uk

I am not a BNP supporter, but the supporter of truth.