The 20-year-old university student wrongly identified by Seven has settled his legal dispute with the network for an undisclosed sum.
The 20-year-old university student wrongly identified by Seven Network as the Bondi Junction mass murderer has settled his legal dispute with the network for an undisclosed sum.on Sunday April 14, the morning after six people were murdered in a Sydney shopping centre.The full terms of the settlement are confidential, representatives for Cohen told this masthead on Friday morning.
A full apology from Seven’s chief executive Jeff Howard said the network “accepts the identification was a grave mistake” and the assertions were entirely false and without basis. His apology explained the process through which Cohen was identified, which included a Seven producer mistakenly believing information relating to a 40-year-old named Benjamin Cohen had been confirmed as correct information regarding the Bondi Junction attacker in the early hours of April 14.
After his name was broadcast at 6.05am and 6.15am, Howard said the network did not air his name again and made attempts to find a contact number for Cohen, which it did not have until his mother contacted the Seven newsroom.A statement from Cohen’s solicitor, Patrick George said they have been instructed to make representations to the Commissioner of Police concerning those who facilitated the claim of Cohen being identified on social media platform X.
A statement from Cohen said: “Users who abuse a platform to target individuals or communities should be held accountable for the consequences of their actions, and platforms should be more accountable for the content they host.”
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