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The aim of this petition is to give families of homicide victims the legal right to formally challenge false information published as fact about homicide victims at the hands of convicted murderers and irresponsible journalist by amending the UK defamation legislation to include families of homicide victims. The P.M, Gordon Brown stated in a letter dated 11 02 08, that due to 2 complaints before the EU Court by the Times Newspapers Limited against the UK government, submitted in 2002, the government was unable to publish its promised consultation paper in 2007. We contacted the EU Court, who informed us that no date has been set to hear the Times complaints. We have been informed that the Times complaints have nothing to do with defamation of homicide victims. While we are delighted the government is introducing legislation to prevent violent offenders profiting from selling their accounts of their crimes for publication (Criminal Memoirs) which was hard fought for, we demand they fulfil their promise to amend the current defamation legislation to include families of homicide victims.

Current signatories

Margaret Watson, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• jenny sheehan
• Andrew Hart
• john webb
• wendy burton
• Margaret Mc Combes
• PAULINE LOVE
• sharon murray
• Angela Lawson
• Marilyn Alliss
• Clive Elliott
• Julie Thomson
• Paul Hill
• Dee Edwards
• sandy goncalves
• cathy franklin
• Alan Franklin
• michelle silvester
• Denise Askew
• Patricia Nicholls
• Jessica Horwood
• BRIDGET CHALKLEY
• Natalie Bartlett
• susan masters
• jennie saunders
• jenna whyman
• LYN CORRIGAN
• Debbie Dubens
• Sharon Bixby
• lisa brooks
• Lyn Costello
• Roger John Costello
• kathleen johnson
• REBECCA BURKWOOD
• Colette Jensen
• jackie gurie
• Carol Collins
• Paul Jones
• wendy crompton
• susan stinchcombe
• lucy cope
• Lianne Harburn
• John Sandwell
• Ann Oakes-Odger/KnifeCrimes.Org
• Antonia Price
• Edward Talbot
• Sheila Harburn
• amanda everitt
• James Watson
• j summerford
• James Alfred Sibbet
• Joanne Bryce
• Alan Hunt
• sheena wierzbicka
• Sarah Armstrong
• Mrs Grant
• John Johnson
• Stephen Chubb
• Stephanie McAleer
• Caroline Miles
• linda venus
• Angela McGhee
• Jamie Bryce
• CARLA MCINTYRE
• RACHEL MAY
• david hanley
• Jane Standrin
• marhgaret bates
• brenda jayes
• Nathaniel Peat
• P. Howsen
• Katie Dyer
• sandy joyce
• Kelly Carr
• sonia bullock
• Kerry
• Amanda Cadman
• Kaylene Newman
• Alexander Rose
• Wendy Robinson
• Jane Trinder
• Wayne Campbell
• Mrs L H Lewy, Death After Medical Negligence
• Maureen Kneebone
• Nicola Greenidge
• sophia skinner
• Robert Hussey
• Steve Mynes
• jono davies
• SHIRLEY POLLEY
• Kay Best
• Julie Brown
• THERESA CAVE
• Joanne Morrison
• W,J,PENNY
• amanda francis
• dawn leathers richards
• SAMANTHA RIGG-DAVID Sister of Sean Rigg died at Brixton Police station Aug 08
• Charmaine Townsley
• michael jervis
• jimmy bulger
• christopher crompton
• Wendy Lyndon
• Ed Usher
• Linda Mitchell
• Karen Jeacock
• norma wright
• Jodie Corrin
• mellanie meehan
• SHARON NEVE
• maureen tangoren
• Lisa Thorne
• Freda Hamilton
• patricia brown
• Tamara Adair
• Brenda Adams
• Suzanne Honey
• john lambert
• Yvonne McCrorie
• Andreas Schoyen
• Victoria Flanagan
• Elinor Burleigh
• Margaret King
• Jean Ross
• Georgina Strachan
• Clare Alliss
• Audrey Burleigh
• Janice Walkden
• William Burleigh
• stephen carlile
• Mike Clarke
• emma drury
• frederick george spong
• Andy Bowdler
• Andrw Fleming
• sharon Malin
• cathy blyth
• SUSAN SUTOVIC
• holly barclay
• gemma alway
• andrew holmes
• patricia officer
• Alison Sturge
• SharonTucker
• joanna bartlett
• carla terris
• LYN CORRIGAN
• sharmaine hart
• rachael kelly
• leanne morgan
• bb wong
• B D Donovan
• debbie crowe
• Adrian Petrie
• annette skinner
• Alison Macnicol
• Fycsene Shields
• Michelle Jeacock (Justice for Buster Campaign)
• sharon brewis
• janet chandler
• Karen Pullen
• Catherine Whaley
• Jo Belben
• audrey mclay
• B wareing
• HEIDI ANDRADE
• jayne Astbury
• Stephen Horrocks
• Janice Murray
• Margaret Mizen
• Lea Tomlinson
• susan dugdale
• vivian jones
• Rose Dixon
• Charlotte Fantelli
• Gail Townsley
• marianne eldritch
• Bernice McDonald
• Rachel Robinson
• Nicola Currie
• kirsty louise jamieson
• sharon richardson
• susan waller
• Louise
• ann wilson
• Ms Victoria Rochford
• Michael John Spalding
• sonia boylan
• Rhiannon Smith
• jeanette martin
• Rebecca Churchill
• marianne
• Gigi Jeavons
• M oldfield
• jon
• Alexander Thorn
• Joanna Capon
• John Crist
• lorraine nicholls
• Colin Gilbey
• Francis Deutsch
• Barbara Quelch
• Yvonne Morton
• Dr Barbara Light
• Glenys Coxell
• victoria wilkinson
• Eve Brickell
• helen
• anntoinette bergman
• Joe Hutchison
• Melanie Safka King
• marie wright
• m govender
• ALLISON DIEHL
• James Edward Tarlton
• Stevin Hamilton
• traci warwick
• peter woodhams
• Len Askew
• shena walker
• Amanda Welsh
• CALLUM CUNNINGHAM
• lucy davis
• Alison Bickell
• Ryan Thompson
• Karen Road
• Claire Ralph
• erica wilson
• Carol Keene
• leanne silvester
• ANGIE BURKE KELLY
• Amanda Knox
• tamsin holloway
• amanda cox
• margaret dean
• thomas bates
• tina clark
• selda zurnacioglu
• Harley Jackson