The Daily Express. A class act.
On a related note, perhaps we can expect to see similar stories having a swipe at those involved in/affected by other tragic events once they reach the age of majority? Can we look forward to the schoolfriends of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells being villified for twittering about their weekend activities next year perhaps? Or maybe the siblings of Madeline McCann being hounded for getting on with their lives and having the occasional alcoholic beverage sometime around 2022? Do the 'bloidz keep a little list of young people involved in terrible events so they can dredge up shit about them as soon as they turn 18? I wouldn't be at all surprised.
UPDATE
Jonathan at No Sleep Til Brooklands makes the same point, but so, so much better than I did.
To those teenagers, I say this; put the Buckfast down and think about taking up crusading investigative journalism as a path to redemption. There are plenty more tragedies out there with potential! Okay, Ann Coulter is already bravely taking down the 9/11 widows, but I bet there are probably some babies damaged by the fallout from Chernobyl who don't comport themselves with sufficient decorum in 2009. What are the people who got rescued from the sinking ship during the Zeebrugge disaster up to these days? I bet some of them are a bit sweary. Be creative! With a few seconds on Wikipedia I just found out that three people survived getting wounded in the 2002 Washington sniper attacks; why not find out who they are and then start talking to their neighbours or digging around in their bins?
Awesome.
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