The fallout from the prank call made by two Aussie DJs to the hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated for severe morning sickness just keeps on coming.
After the suicide of Jacintha Saldanha, the nurse who put the DJs' call through to the ward where Kate was being treated, the radio station 2DayFM suspended the hosts and announced it would be donating all the profits from its advertising to a fund set up to assist the Saldanha family. It cancelled its Christmas party.
The two hosts appeared on Australian current affairs shows, tearful and remorseful, saying they'd never imagined their hoax call would result in the death of one of the nurses.
DJs from yesteryear were wheeled in by news media and, interestingly, DJs on both sides of the ditch said that although prank calls were a part of their everyday repertoire, they never phoned emergency services or hospitals. As Kevin Black put it, you never rang the front of the phonebook. Which is just common sense.
The weeping DJs in the gun were castigated in the UK media for their self-pitying sob fest, as one commentator put it, while images of Saldanha and her husband and two teenage children featured front and centre on every news bulletin and newspaper.