So what?
The Mirror article didn't highlight the plight of a missing child, it was just a cynical ploy to sell more copy! I'm sure you'd be crying foul if it was a rehash of the cadaver dogs or DNA evidence.
And why Madeleine should not be mentioned?
That was a request to a local paper from local people who are also victims of the tragedy. It's not like you or I calling the Guardian and requesting that they don't write anything.
So what if there are old articles? Isn't it better if Madeleine has been spoken and written about?
Again, would you feel the same way if old news about the parents and the t7 were being used? Madeleine herself was just the buzz word to get the paper sold. The rest was rubbish about apartment owners not wishing to be dragged in to what has become a bit of a farce.
One has sympathy with local people who may be inconvenienced by association with the ongoing search for a missing child.
However, until Madeleine McCann is found I think it is something they are going to have to put up with. Madeleine McCann and her family are the victims with whom I feel empathy.
New information is being investigated.
Events may have happened between 2004 and 2010 but it is only now coming into the public domain.
Madeleine's name may sell newspapers, but the newspapers also inform.
This story has been picked up worldwide and from the copy I’ve been reading there is genuine horror about the inactivity of police on the matter at the time when some of these cases were reported.
Portugal is being portrayed in a less than child friendly light and there is comment about the present apparent lack of police co-operation in trying to apprehend this offender.
IMO if Portugal is going to retrieve anything from the International bashing being received to its reputation, they are going to have to be seen to be working assiduously to bring these and Madeleine's case to conclusion.
