Radio stations were quick to run the story in a way that must have had Terry Brownbill, Birmingham Safeguarding Children Board's £800-a-day spin doctor rubbing his hands in glee. "Birmingham City Council has sacked six social workers following the death of Khyra Ishaq," the bulletins began.
Well, yes, up to a point.
The social workers were all sacked, for showing not the slightest sign that they were up to the job, according to Mr Tucker.
And the dismissals did take place after Khyra's death in May 2008.
But, and here's the cruncher, none of them were ever involved in the Khyra Ishaq case.
Asked about this, a council spokeswoman said: "We never claimed they were involved with Khyra."
That is true, but neither did Mr Tucker go out of his way to make it clear that the case of the six was completely removed from the Khyra Ishaq tragedy. Had he done so, his flimsy smokescreen to disguise the councils' failings over Khyra would have been exposed.
Pertinent questions here might include: how many of the six were qualified social workers, and how many were trainees?
This would put Mr Tucker's claim into some context, for it is not presumably unknown for trainee social workers to be shown the door once managers discover that they are going to make the grade. Firing qualified social workers, however, is a far more serious matter.
The council press office, now so far into its self-dug bunker that it is refusing even to pass on to Mr Tucker journalists' requests for interviews, said it could not find out the division between qualified and trainees.
Another question for Mr Tucker: how many social workers were sacked in 2008, 2007 and 2006?
The fact remains, and this has been confirmed by the council, no one, not a single person, has been sacked or even disciplined over Khyra's gruesome death.
The failure to act is, apparently, because council bosses are waiting for the Safeguarding Board's serious case review before deciding what to do.
But serious case reviews, as we are endlessly told, are "lessons to be learned" reports and do not, heaven forbid, involve apportioning blame.
In that case, then, there can be no point in waiting for the review to be published later in the year, unless of course the council is simply trying to buy time and hoping that the clamour for officials to take responsibility for the appalling and preventable death of a small girl dies down.
Khyra's death will not be forgotten, as long as ink remains in my pen. And to anyone who thinks that sounds a little dramatic, I suggest they read Mrs Justice King's Family Court judgment on care proceedings for Khyra's siblings which lists in full, sickening detail, the failure of social services and education officials.
But be warned, you will need a very strong stomach indeed.