Football fan paid by reporter to trespass!

[Surfer]

A British reporter from The Sunday Mirror has been arrested by the South African police for "orchestrating" the incident at Cape Town Stadium where UK citizen, Pavlos Joseph trespassed into the English team's change room, a report says.

According to Timeslive.co.za, National Police Commissioner General Bheki Cele told a press briefing in Pretoria on Tuesday morning that Simon Wright had been arrested for "booking hotels for Mr Joseph under a false name and also harbouring and interviewing Mr Joseph for seven days after he made news".

Cele reportedly said that police had evidence that Wright had orchestrated the incident and "involved the co-operation of a number of individuals".

Cele said observation of CCTV footage from the English change rooms and investigations confirmed this.

"They just wanted to put the World Cup in a bad light and to profit from this act- we expect to arrest more people in this case," the report quotes Cele as saying.

Wright wrote several articles in the run-up to the World Cup, criticising South Africa's security and dissuaded people from attending the tournament because of crime. - IOL reporter

 

[Parksy]

This is the same tabloid rag that faked pictures of 'British soldiers' urinating on 'Iraqi prisoners' in an attempt to discredit our troops. The actions of the reporters and of the editor Piers Morgan who continued to insist that the faked photographs were genuine could have led to an escalation of violence directed towards our troops by militant Iraqis.

 

[colin-yorkshire1]

quite right parksy" it seems to me that the free press is sometimes too free inventing stories or twisting the facts inorder to sell papers it is high time the law was changed to make the press resposible for there own actions and the press was grabbed by the tabliods and squeesed untill it is stopped. investigative journalism has it's place like the watergate scandal but setting up people in scams like "fergie" in hope of inventing a story posing as something else other than the reporters they pertain to be should not be allowed.

hefty fines and a bit of jail time would disuade the worsed culprits I think.