Diana crash picture on UK TV

UK TV station Channel 4's documentary Diana: The Witnesses In The Tunnel, broadcast on 6th June, included a notorious photograph of Diana receiving medical treatment at the crash scene.

Channel 4 broadcast the image, citing a public interest defence, despite a letter from Diana's children asking them to cut it. The UK tabloids have been predictably vitriolic in their criticism of Channel 4, though I can't see what all the fuss is about because Diana's face was obscured by a grey square.

The Sun published the photo with Diana's face obscured on its front page on 14th July last year in protest at Chi magazine, so how can they criticse Channel 4 for doing the same thing?

The source of the image is a French police report into Diana's accident, photocopies of which first appeared in the American TV documentary 48 Hours and the French book Lady Diana.