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Complainant Name:
Mr
Alexander Baron
Clauses Noted: 1
Publication: The Guardian
Complaint:
Mr Alexander Baron of London
complained that the newspaper had inaccurately stated that NSM
supporters had been responsible for a fire on a Jewish
theological college in 1965 which had resulted in the death of
a young boy.
Resolution:
The complaint was resolved when the newspaper agreed to
publish the following correction: An obituary of the former British
fascist leader Colin Jordan (p31, April 13, 2009), stated that
a fatal fire at a theological college in Stamford Hill,
London, was part of a wave of 34 arson attacks by National
Socialist Movement (NSM) supporters in the mid-1960s. While
some have contended that the college fire had hallmarks of the
later arsons, no charges were brought over that incident and
the coroner at the time recorded the victim’s death as
“accidental”.
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