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"Lord John Prescott has encouraged his Twitter followers to complain about The Sun&amp;#039;s February 15 front cover featuring late model Reeva Steenkamp and Oscar Pistorius. Steenkamp, a law graduate and former FHM cover star who had been dating the Olympic and Paralympic athlete for a few months, died in a shooting at Pistorius&amp;#039;s Pretoria home in the early hours of Thursday (February 14). Pistorius arrived at court on Friday morning to face a charge of murder.  Directly addressing The Sun&amp;#039;s owner and News Corporation founder Rupert Murdoch on Twitter, Lord Prescott wrote: &amp;quot;A new low for your paper The Sun. Do you really think this [cover] is appropriate?&amp;quot; The cover features a large image of Steenkamp wearing a pink bikini, along with two smaller pictures of Pistorius - one showing him leaving a police station on Thursday and a second of the sprinter on track. @rupertmurdoch A new low for your paper The Sun. Do you really think this is appropriate? twitter.com/neurosceptic/s\u2026 &amp;amp;mdash; John Prescott (@johnprescott) February 15, 2013  Lord Prescott - a former Labour Deputy Prime Minister - also posted the telephone number of The Sun and editor Dominic Mohan&amp;#039;s work email address on his Twitter feed, accompanied by the hashtag #HerNameWasReevaSteenkamp. &amp;quot;So [East Guildford Liberal Democrat council candidate] @georgewpotter phoned Sun Newsdesk to complain,&amp;quot; Lord Prescott later wrote. &amp;quot;They say, &amp;#039;She was a model so it&amp;#039;s just a photo of her working&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; He also claimed that the newspaper had paid &amp;quot;up to \u00A335,000 for that picture on the front page&amp;quot;, and added: &amp;quot;I really hope every member of the Shadow Cabinet thinks twice before writing for The Sun after that front page.&amp;quot; A petition has also been launched on change.org, in which the petition creators describe the cover and choice of image as &amp;quot;distasteful&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;disrespectful&amp;quot;. The petition also calls on The Sun to apologise and accuses the paper of &amp;quot;objectification&amp;quot; of Steenkamp after her death. Oscar Pistorius career in pictures:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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