MADELEINE news updates - a new positive thread

[littlemissbossy]

For those of you who are interested - and don't want any arguing - the news update according to Sky

• police are now looking for a man seen in a white van
• they have an e-fit of him
• also want to interview an american who lives locally who owns a white van and hasn't been seen for the last few days
• reward of £1.5M has been offered by the News of the World

dont think anyone's hanging him wannabe

I'm sure I'm not the only one who is saddened and actually quite disgusted by some of the recent comments on here.

I imagine that the chap is is innocent- along with his elderly mother.

The media are behaving like vultures, each trying to get a tiny bit of info and sensationalise it.

On ITV news last night, the Mirror reporter could only really describe him as 'odd'

I think this whole sad saga has shown our press up for precisely what they are: a bunch of ill-informed hacks so desperate for copy that in the absence of firm truth, they will make things up. To think that people pay good (ha!) money for this... I will be sticking to the BBC for my news in future.

If he is a witness why are there forensics combing his house for information ?? I find that puzzling - can anyone explain? thanks

i was just about to ask that.i think portugese police are doing right being quiet about it until they have something to say, the press coverage using the names etc is wrong IMO, IF he doesnt have anything to do with MAdelienes dissapearance, then i fear his life will not be normal again, nor his childs.

oh i hop[e and pray they find her soon

I think all you amateur Clouseau's should stop speculating and wait and see

if you can

BBC are saying 3 people still being interviewed?? Have they been there all night?

Think so, they are stressing that they are just interviews, not arrests, so they could be witness statements...

He was released last night at 11.30 pm. There are now police outside his ex and daughters house who have been taken away. This shoukd never have happened regardless of whether we want news or not. This mans and his family's life could be potentially ruined.

i think they are just desperate to have something to say/show. because of ian huntley people don't want to feel anyne has ben overlloked.also it keeps maddy in the public eye. all a storm in a teacup i fear...

Sky news DOES sensationalise EVERYTHING, and is guilty of over speculation and almost ridiculous theorising, but:

'Brunt said: "There is nothing to suggest this morning that police are any closer to finding Madeleine.

The Murats' villa"But I do say that from other police sources we got the impression that there is - and I don't know where this stems from - a growing confidence that they will still find Madeleine alive."'

Let's continue to hope.

I haven't watched much on TV about Madeleine or really joined in the convos on here.

However last night i watched BBC News24 and last night i went to bed with a knot in my stomach and the beginning of a headache and the news 24 images on a loop in my head.

I can see how people feel so involved and connected to Madeleine and her family if they watch that daily.

Its seems so similar to what happened to Holly and Jessica,

I hope they find her happy and healthy,

sky news = sun readers = sensationalists = bollox

BBC is so much better- they tend to wait until a cetain item has actually been confirmed before reporting it, as opposed to SKYNEWS making their own shit up.

I'd had it when Sky spent the whole weekend devoted to it when there wasn't actually any news. If that poor guy is innocent, I do feel sorry for him as he has been jumped on by the press and I certainly went along with it, assuming he is guilty because the forensic team were there and also out of desperation to have some sort of conclusion. Let's hope it's resolved soon. Still praying for a happy ending.

I agree tiredemma. I was watching a BBC news report last night (the first i have watched on this story) and the reporter was told on camera by her editor to 'Stick to the facts' before she spoke to camera.

And there are very few facts that we are allowed to know due to the judicial process in Portugal. Just because we are not being told doesnt mean they are not making progress. We just dont know.

I think the Portuguese legal system is spot on.

I think the media in this country should be prevented from reporting on these cases. If a person goes missing then of course it needs to be reported, reported that the person is missing, have the family make an appeal if they feel they want to, but that?s it. No updates, no speculating, no ?experts? talking about the why?s and wherefore?s and what might have?s. And if a case is then resolved, then of course it gets reported in the media, but no giving out the name and address of the suspect, not until they have been found guilty by a court of law.

We don?t need to know that a villa has been searched in Portugal. We don?t need to know that someone has been interviewed, or that that someone?s family have been taken into police protection in this country. Yes we have a desire to know, but we don?t need to know. If police search another hundred villas in this way will sky news feel the need to name all the owners and go into the intimate details of their backgrounds and habbits?

If the media were prevented from reporting this sort of thing, then we wouldn?t have the speculation, wouldn?t have the need to talk about it, and maybe the police would be in a better position to do their jobs and to solve crimes rather than to give 24 hour commentary to the media and ultimately the general public.

An eloquent post wannaBe.

Some of think that the need for justice to be done publicly is one of the things that separates a democracy from a police state.
I don't think secret trials are really the way forward. That's the way the world's worst dictatorships have operated.

My mum just did a key note at a cnference about the

fast food, fast news, culture we live in.

must make sure she gets it online

It's a difficult balance though aloha - someone I knew was arrested a few years back on suspicion of being in a paedophile ring. His computer was seized in a dawn raid, all his books were seized, he was suspended from work (in a school) and it was the headline news story on the 1 o Clock news, in which they went short of naming him, but said where he worked and in what position so it was very easy to work out.
About 3 months later he was cleared of anything at all - the only evidence against him had been his name in an address book belonging to someone who had been a paedophile. There were 2 lines in the local newspaper to report this.

He had to work abroad because this came back to haunt him so many times, and there was no fault of his.

absolutely wannabe. 24hr rolling news dilutes the quality of information and feeds vigilante reactionary idiots.

it was the bbc who discovered the activity behind the hedge of the villa - hence the filming through the hedge of his mother and asking questions - they probably wanted the scoop - but agree if he is inocent then a lot of damage has beendone to him and his family by the subsequest reporting.