Sky News Australia’s role in Cairo Takeaway fiasco laid out by judge’s finding it published ‘misleading’ statements

A judgment in the federal court this week meant News Corp was not yet able to leave the Cairo Takeaway incident behind. Photograph: supplied

When the Daily Telegraph apologised in March for “causing distress” by sending a pro-Israel activist and a reporter to a popular Sydney Middle Eastern restaurant, News Corp may have believed it could draw a line under the ugly incident.

But a judgment in the federal court this week reopened the wound and revealed that another arm of News Corp, Sky News Australia, was one of the outlets that published what Justice Robert Bromwich found were “highly misleading and even deceptive” statements about the settlement between the publisher, the activist and the restaurant.