There really is nothing new under the sun as far as the appearance of information detrimental to Madeleine's case and her parents emanating from illegally leaked information from the investigation is concerned.
All accompanied with the usual denials.
For example ...
http://miscarriageofjustice.co/index.php?topic=5973.75taken fromJonbenet and Maddie: Case Studies in the Ethical Deficit of Contemporary Journalism
Professor Michael Tracey
Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, Colorado, 80309
USA
2.2 The Case of Madeleine McCann
By the following day at least one detective was telling journalists that there were doubts about whether Madeleine had really been abducted and that “police thought the couple were not telling the truth…” (Chrisman, 2007).
The story appeared the following day, Saturday May 5, in the respected Portuguese newspaper, Diario de Noticias.
The story, headlined “This Is A Very Badly Told Story,”had been written by Jose Manuel Oliveira who had received an off the record briefing by one of the top investigators of the Policia Judiciaria ( PJ ), the Portuguese criminal investigation police and said that “the headline/quote is based on the police and PJ sense that the testimonies gathered from the initial questioning of the McCanns, friends, and staff of the Ocean Club were confusing.
Oliveira believes this report was leaked because the PJ were beginning to have ‘doubts’ about the McCanns – that they were somehow connected or they knew someone who had had something to do with her disappearance – not at this stage that she might be dead.
Astonishingly Oliveria says he got the information from the PJ for this leak by 5pm., on the 4th May – less than 24 hours after Maddie disappeared…” ( Chrisman, 2007).
This was immediately denied by the JP, but on the 7th May Diario de Noticias published an article headlined “Police clues points to Madeleine’s death,” with an inside page headline “Port authority already looking for Madeleine’s body,” citing “police sources.”
At the same time another paper was reporting that police suspicions were based on the couple’s behavior, and one said that detectives “suspected them because their wives said Kate was too controlled to be the distraught mother” while another claimed forensic scientists reported that her controlled public appearance and make up indicated a “cold and manipulative” personality.
This narrative was unfolding at a time when Maddie’s disappearance could still be counted in hours.
http://www.ijhssnet.com/journals/Vol_3_No_15_August_2013/1.pdfThe thing is, information was being leaked directly from the police investigation to the Portuguese media et al some of which is reiterated on a daily basis ten years after the event.
Who was responsible for that if not the police ... and why did no-one in authority in Portugal think it might be appropriate to stop the law breaker from cocking a snook at the law of the land?