Miranda Devine apologises to Quaden Bayles for ‘hurtful and untrue’ tweets subject of defamation case
News Corp’s Miranda Devine has apologised to Quaden Bayles, a nine-year-old Indigenous boy with dwarfism, for tweets which suggested his claims of bullying could be a “scam” and led to a defamation case against both Devine and News Corp subsidiary, Nationwide News.
“In February this year I posted some comments on my personal Twitter account about Quaden Bayles and his mother Yarraka,” Devine tweeted. “I now those comments were hurtful and untrue. I sincerely apologise to the Bayles for those comments.”
Bayles’ story attracted global headlines early this year
