Originally Posted by Damien

It's also unfair to the police, who are unable to do defend their actions due to the privacy laws! Something we should have in this country, properly why the media is so keen to vilify them. Yet the press/family members continue to make comments to the media to try and spin what is going on in their favor. Trying to portray the incidents as the police trying to cover up their own failures, and 'wasting time' on 'setting-up' the McCanns instead of looking for Madeleine.

None of us can be sure if that is true or not. The police will not say. But the idea that we should take a side and that they have gone though enough is stupid. If they are suspects, then they should be treated as suspects and the police should do their jobs. If they are innocent then that will be shown, if they are not, they'll go to jail. None of this can be changed by a media campaign.

Comments from Family members, untrusted information from newspapers, and sympathy for the parents do not make them innocent (or guilty for that matter)