On other occasions, the "Mail" under Dacre has been criticised for an alleged racist attitude towards the stories it chooses to cover. Nick Davies recounts an anecdote from a former senior news reporter who, en route to a murder scene of a woman and her two children 300 miles away, was told to return because the victims were black. Davies comments: "Perhaps I have been unlucky, but I have never come across a reporter from the "Daily Mail" who did not have some similar story, of black people being excluded from the paper because of their colour."