The Times did not misrepresent Arctic expert in assassination story, IPSO rules

Newspaper did not breach press code in report about Prof Peter Wadhams's claims that British Arctic scientists had been assassinated, regulator says

The Times did not misrepresent one of the world's leading Arctic experts in a report on his claim that three British scientists investigating ice thickness may have been assassinated two years ago, the UK's press regulator has ruled.

Peter Wadhams, professor of ocean physics at the university of Cambridge, complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) that he had been inaccurately quoted in an article by the paper's environment editor, Ben Webster. He said the piece had damaged his scientific reputation.