The Mail on Sunday has accused a PR man of threatening to complain to the press regulator about the actions of one of its reporters.
The paper ran an article in yesterday's issue, Bizarre bid to gag MoS... by 'home office', stating that one of its journalists "received unwarranted threats" when reporting on the controversy over Fiona Woolf's chairing of the inquiry into historical child sex abuse.
The reporter had arranged to interview one of the inquiry's panel members, Graham Wilmer. But five minutes before the agreed meeting time, James Saville - a spokesman for another panel member, Sharon Jones - called the reporter to say the interview had been called off.
According to the MoS, Saville then suggested the reporter had behaved improperly – a claim the journalist has vehemently denied.
It quotes Saville as making a reference to the Independent Press Standards Organisation, by telling its journalist: "I don't want to have to start getting Ipso involved."
The article further states that Saville claimed to be working for the home office. The paper appears to contest this by saying that Saville represents Evans personally rather than the government department as a whole.
Source: Mail on Sunday
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