Daily Telegraph apologises to John Jarratt as defamation case settles

The Daily Telegraph has issued an apology to John Jarratt as part of settling the actor’s defamation case against the newspaper.

“Some readers may have believed that an article published on July 7 titled “Jarratt accuser ‘broken’” implied that the actor John Jarratt was guilty of an offence,” the apology, published yesterday, read. “This is incorrect. Mr Jarratt was fully acquitted of the charge after a unanimous ‘not guilty’ verdict by a 12-person jury in July. We apologise to Mr Jarratt for the hurt and embarrassment caused by the publication of the article.”

Jarratt’s Federal Court case against The Telegraph has settled