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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Michael Savage Media editor

Ofcom receives complaints over GB News item on defendants’ ‘foreign-sounding names’

Screengrab of Martin Daubney on GB News
Martin Daubney presented the segment, which aired on GB News on Monday last week. Photograph: GB News

GB News has been accused of risking inflaming tensions over crime committed by migrants after presenting unscientific research that counted the number of defendants with “foreign-sounding names”.

Ofcom, the UK’s media regulator, has received complaints about a segment on the rightwing news channel last week that drew a link between “non-British” names and those in court charged with sex offences.

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