The Sun publisher agrees to pay Christopher Jefferies ‘substantial damages’

Wed, 05 Nov 2025

Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers apologises for invading privacy of man wrongly arrested for high-profile murder

Rupert Murdoch’s news publisher in the UK agreed to pay “substantial damages” to a man wrongly arrested for a high-profile murder, after apologising for the invasion of his privacy.

Christopher Jefferies, a retired schoolteacher and landlord from Bristol, was wrongfully arrested in 2010 for the murder of Joanna Yeates, a landscape architect.