Man confessing on TV to mother’s murder starts media ethics row in Italy

Lorenzo Carbone. The crew with the talkshow Pomeriggio5 found Carbone, whom police had been searching for, outside his home. Photograph: Mediaset

The broadcast of a TV interview in which a man confessed to a news reporter that he had murdered his mother has caused a row over media ethics in Italy.

Lorenzo Carbone, 50, made the confession outside his home in Spezzano di Fiorano, a town in the province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region, during the interview aired on the Mediaset talkshow Pomeriggio5 on Monday afternoon.