BBC breached standards

THE BBC's Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) has found the broadcaster breached its editorial standards by broadcasting a racial slur during the Bafta film awards ceremony in February.

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Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson could be heard involuntarily shouting the slur as Sinners stars Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo presented the award for special visual effects during the ceremony at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

The ECU found editorial standards were unintentionally breached via the broad of the offensive term and in failing to edit it out of the time-delayed showing of the ceremony.

A third breach occurred when the word was not removed from the iPlayer version of the programme until the next morning.