The disclosure of photographs of a suspected offender by the police to two local newspapers which subsequently published them with the implication that the people pictured had committed a crime breached the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 Art.8. Their publication was not necessary in a democratic society because the police had failed to undertake adequate basic police work in investigating the matter which might have revealed that the person pictured was innocent.
CC (Central London) (Judge Collins)
22/02/2005