The Registrar received two complaints from two Listeners: one against the 702’s EWN and the other radioagainst 94.7 Highveld Stereo about the same news item, with a clip of a scream in agony played during their News.

An Adjudicator of the Commission held that the material complained of did not amount to a contravention of the Broadcasting Code.

On appeal by one of the Complainants the Chairperson of the Commission referred this to the Tribunal.

The Complaint was not upheld on the basis that a warning was given and that the item was necessary to keep the public informed of what was happening in the relevant prison.