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Article: Editor quits after `serious error' that caused collapse of footballers' trial
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 13, 2001
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COLIN MYLER, the editor of the Sunday Mirror, fell on his sword
yesterday over the Leeds footballers' trial debacle, at the end of a
week that will go down in the annals of journalistic infamy. Mr
Myler's replacement is Tina Weaver, the present deputy editor of The
Mirror.
After a three-day inquest into the disastrous decision to publish
the article that led to the collapse of proceedings against Lee
Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate, Mr Myler was held responsible.
It is believed he was asked to go, with City institutions baying
for blood as pounds 40m was wiped off the shares of Trinity Mirror,
the paper's parent company. Mark Haysom, the managing director of the
group's national newspapers, ...