News Corp apologises to Victorian Liberal MP Sam Groth and wife over relationship claims

The Herald Sun has apologised to Victorian Liberal MP Sam Groth and his wife, Brittany, for a series of articles earlier this year that suggested their relationship had begun when Brittany was underage. Photograph: Kelly Defina/Getty Images for Garnier

The Herald Sun has apologised to Victorian Liberal MP Sam Groth and his wife, Brittany, for a series of articles earlier this year that suggested their relationship had begun when Brittany was underage.

Groth was suing publisher the Herald and Weekly Times, reporter Stephen Drill and Herald Sun editor Sam Weir for defamation, while his wife had launched the first test of a new statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy.