Editing Daily Mail (section)

=== Abd Ali Hameed al-Waheed ===
In December 2017, the ''Daily Mail'' published a front-page story entitled "Another human rights fiasco!", with the subheading "Iraqi 'caught red-handed with bomb' wins £33,000 – because our soldiers kept him in custody for too long". The story related to a judge's decision to award money to Abd Ali Hameed al-Waheed after he had been unlawfully imprisoned. The headline was printed despite the fact that during the trial itself the judge concluded that claims that al-Waheed had been caught with a bomb were "pure fiction".

In July 2018, the [[Independent Press Standards Organisation]] ordered the paper to publish a front-page correction after finding the newspaper had breached rules on accuracy in its reporting of the case. The ''Daily Mail'' reported that a major internal investigation was conducted following the decision to publish the story, and as a result, "strongly worded disciplinary notes were sent to seven senior members of staff", which made it clear "that if errors of the same nature were to happen again, their careers would be at risk".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jul/27/daily-mail-publishes-front-page-apology-over-iraqi-bomb-claim|title=Daily Mail publishes front-page apology over Iraqi bomb claim|last=Waterson|first=Jim|date=27 July 2018|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=27 July 2018|archive-date=27 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727184414/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jul/27/daily-mail-publishes-front-page-apology-over-iraqi-bomb-claim|url-status=live}}</ref>