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(W H Smith are a major UK book seller BTW)
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23709609-details/WH+Smith+apologises+after+promoting+Josef+Fritzl+book+for+Father%27s+Day/article.do
High street chain WH Smith apologised today after promoting a book on cellar rapist Josef Fritzl as a Father's Day gift.
Shoppers at the Lewisham branch were shocked to see a non-fiction book on the Austrian, who kept his daughter captive for 24 years, in a Top 50 Books for Dad display.
Matt James, 29, who spotted the the book, The Crimes of Josef Fritzl in the section said: Are they mad? He's probably the worst dad in the world. What he did to his children was horrible.
Another, Rowena Langlois, 50, added: It seems like some kind of sick joke. Has anyone in the company actually sat down and thought about this?
A spokeswoman for WH Smith apologised saying it was a mistake by one store.
She added: It is not national policy. We will rectify this immediately.
It also emerged today that a Tesco store in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, had stocked the book among its Father's Day selection.
A spokesman said the title was placed there in error and had now been removed
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23709609-details/WH+Smith+apologises+after+promoting+Josef+Fritzl+book+for+Father%27s+Day/article.do
High street chain WH Smith apologised today after promoting a book on cellar rapist Josef Fritzl as a Father's Day gift.
Shoppers at the Lewisham branch were shocked to see a non-fiction book on the Austrian, who kept his daughter captive for 24 years, in a Top 50 Books for Dad display.
Matt James, 29, who spotted the the book, The Crimes of Josef Fritzl in the section said: Are they mad? He's probably the worst dad in the world. What he did to his children was horrible.
Another, Rowena Langlois, 50, added: It seems like some kind of sick joke. Has anyone in the company actually sat down and thought about this?
A spokeswoman for WH Smith apologised saying it was a mistake by one store.
She added: It is not national policy. We will rectify this immediately.
It also emerged today that a Tesco store in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, had stocked the book among its Father's Day selection.
A spokesman said the title was placed there in error and had now been removed
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