Last week I wrote some thoughts about the parents of the missing girl Madeleine McCann, who I suspected was being framed for her supposed murder. In the 7 days since that particular post a few things have happened than we know for a fact; her parents have been interviewed by police in Portugal, they have been named as suspects and they have brought their 2 year old twins home. As far as I can see that is the extent of most of what we know for certain. Since Madeleine’s disappearance at the beginning of May, we have been told numerous times by the media that in Portugal it is illegal for the police to discuss the case with anyone or to give information out to the public. How then one wonders do the newspapers and others apparently know that:

1. Blood / other bodily fluids belonging to Madeleine have been found in the hire care that the family did not have at the time
2. Hair, and handfuls of it have been found in the same car
3. The child was drugged with sleeping tablets
4. The child was accidentally killed by having been given some kind of sedative
5. The child has been buried under cobbles outside a church, or even hidden inside a church
6. Some kind of sniffer dog, trained to detect dead bodies has smelled such a thing on Kate McCann, her bible, her clothes, the child’s toy.

There are probably other things that apparently various quarters of the British, French and Portugese press know for a fact, but which actually no one really knows to be true.

My appeal at this point would perhaps be that the media could just calm down a little, print was is actually a fact rather than a supposition and not condemn people as guilty of murder when the evidence seems at best flawed and at worst fabricated. I am no expert on DNA but I wonder how they can be quite so sure of their facts without a body and with a family who all share certain parts of the DNA of Madeleine. I would imagine and have read that the siblings share a considerable amount of that DNA. I know it is alien for many newspapers to actually print facts but I for one am getting a little weary of this whole circus.