Roy Greenslade reports on a story de nos jours:
A fugitive in hiding after absconding from prison has emailed his local paper to complain about its "biased" coverage. Derek Watson, sentenced to five years' jail last year on 25 charges of fraud, claimed that the Dundee Courier's report of his failure to return to Castle Huntly open prison after a week-long release was untrue.
It said that Watson had preyed on the elderly and the vulnerable. "This is most certainly not true," Watson said in his email. But a spokesman for the paper pointed out that among Watson's victims were a 73-year-old woman and a 79-year-old man.
The poor man. I hope he has read the Human Rights Act and is ready to sue.
