Revealed: David Sullivan’s Sunday Sport sold sexualised images of 15-year-old girls | Media
By: Geraldine McKelvie, Emine Sinmaz, Jacob Steinberg and Kate Mead | Published: 2026-06-08 15:09:22 | Source: www.theguardian.com
In 1987, the tabloid press in Britain was at the peak of its powers. The Sun newspaper, with its brash celebrity scoops and strident support for Margaret Thatcher – who won her third general election that year – was selling almost 4m copies a day.
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Competition for stories and readers was relentless, resulting in ever more salacious and lurid editorial devices to win a slice of the readership…
