Among those who condemned the paper were former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott and Labour MP Chris Bryant, who tweeted: "This is a simply despicable front page. It glories in domestic violence. @rupertmurdoch apologise."
Prescott's tweet said: "I really hope every member of the shadow cabinet thinks twice before writing for the Sun after that front page."
Among the feminist complainants was the newspaper columnist Suzanne Moore who argued that the Sun had hit "a new low". She called it "lechery over a corpse," adding: "A woman just murdered? I hope mass boycott."
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One of the most damning tweets was posted by a journalist, Ben Bold, who accused the Sun of "doing what it does best: flaunting its egregious lack of judgement, decency etc". Many callers to Victoria Derbyshire's BBC Radio 5 Live programme on Friday expressed their outrage, with few people willing to defend the paper.
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The former deputy PM took to Twitter this morning to denounce the paper's "titillating" treatment of the model's death allegedly at the hand of her boyfriend, the Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius.
In a message addressed to Rupert Murdoch's Twitter account, Prescott described the cover as "a new low" for the paper. "Do you really think this is appropriate?" he asked. Prescott also tweeted the telephone number of The Sun and editor Dominic Mohan's work email address, with the hashtag #HerNameWasReevaSteenkamp, urging the tabloid's readers to complain.
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Yahoo News said many users of social media agreed with Prescott that the Sun's cover appeared to be an attempt to "titillate its readers with the image of a woman who had been recently murdered". The fact that the paper had described her on its cover as "Pistorius's lover" rather than using her name, was also a source of anger.
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Marina Hyde, writing in The Guardian under the headline 'Reeva Steenkamp's corpse was in the morgue, her body was on the Sun's front page', noted that the tabloid abandoned its topless page three photo today - "maybe because that particular itch had been scratched" by the appearance of the bikini-clad murder victim on the cover.
Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/media/oscar-pistorius/51532/prescott-hits-sun%25E2%2580%2599s-titillating-reeva-steenkamp-cover#ixzz2L08EqMh8
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