Comments

• Simon

  posted 08 February 2006

  I agree that the pictures they've displayed in this story of Abu Hamza have been pretty grim, but not groundbreaking. It's sort of unwritten editorial policy that you can't show pictures of suspected/convicted murderers unless they are looking as gloomy and sorry-for-themselves as possible (that iconic image of Myra Hindley springs to mind - of course, she looked nothing like that, especially in later life). And the corollary of that: victims are generally portrayed in as innocent a way as possible. Maybe it's not fair, it's just how it is...