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Originally Posted by Chris T

... and the Portuguese legal status of 'Arguido' doesn't make them guilty either.

I'm staggered that after so long, so many people on this side of the Channel seem unwilling or unable to take on board the simple fact that the Portuguese have a judicial, inquisitorial system that is different to ours, with different checks and balances built in.

Far too many column inches (and forum posts) have been made out of this.

A four year old girl is missing, potentially dead. multiple large searches have as of yet failed to turn up the child either alive or dead. The finger of suspicion points towards the parents. The McCanns have used the media at every available oppurtunity in their search for their missing child. I'm not suprised at the amount of either column inches or posts on the subject at hand in the slightest.

I'd also bet that the majority of the column inches have been driven by the McCanns themselves