Sydney Morning Herald columnist says he regrets writing incendiary column based on the ‘false memories and fabrications’ of a woman he called LouiseAn Australian journalist has admitted he regrets and did not sufficiently check the facts of an incendiary column reporting a Sydney woman’s claim that she was gang-raped by six Arabic-speaking men. Paul Sheehan,a conservative columnist at the Sydney Morning Herald, wrote on Monday approximately a woman he called “Louise who claimed she had been dragged from her car near St Mary’s cathedral and brutally raped, or beaten and urinated on after finishing a nursing shift at a hospital in August 2002.
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Source: theguardian.com