Complaints were received regarding offensive remarks made by a presenter with reference to a young woman who had escaped death in a murderous attack on her parents, siblings and herself.
The Tribunal held that, in spite of the fact that the complaints were understandable and the remarks were clearly unacceptable in the circumstances, they did not go so far as to justify an intervention by way of the application of the Broadcasting Code which, in effect, amounts to a legal intervention. It was not, in the circumstances, absolutely necessary to make a finding against the broadcaster.
The complaints were, accordingly, not upheld.
[2015] JOL 32988 (BCCSA)