Another “Cry In The Dark”? (3)
More than 10 months ago now, I did a posting expressing despair at the parents of missing Madeleine McCann being declared suspects and expressing my view that they were totally innocent of involvement in the disappearance of their daughter. So I welcome the much belated acceptance by the Portuguese police that the McCanns should no longer be arguidos (suspects).
In the meanwhile, however, much of the British media has behaved outrageously in libelling the McCanns and the other suspect Robert Murat. Last week, Murat won £600,000 from 11 newspapers and Sky News following the judgement that scores of their reports were libellous. The level of these financial penalties to the individual newspapers is pathetic and we need to think again about the regulation of our media.