Sunday Telegraph’s suggestion child caused mother’s death ‘inaccurate’ and ‘not qualified’

The Press Council has lambasted The Sunday Telegraph for ‘significant inaccuracy’ and ‘unfairness’ for an article which implied a woman’s death was caused by her young son.

On July 30 last year, a story was published in the News Corp owned masthead as ‘Mum died from her toddler’s sickness’ in print, and ‘Dead mum Imogen Petrak may have caught pneumococcal disease from her child’ online.

The Sunday Telegraph has not made changes to the online article

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