A woman wails over a corpse in her backyard in Melbourne yesterday while a Nine News chopper flies overhead.

As she sobs over his deceased body, covered by a blanket, they shamelessly film the scene denying her, and two women with her, all privacy.

Get the pictures at any cost.

Blaze it across the 6:00 News.

Is it only because the man was the patriarch of a family well-known to police that such pictures were used?

Would a blonde, blue-eyed mother from Camberwell be subjected to the same exposure if she were mourning over her dead son in the middle of the street?

What are the rights of family members at a time like this?

Where do you draw the line between privacy and Public Interest -and could the magnitude of the crime not have been relayed without them?

The picture is currently being used by The Age and the Herald Sun.

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