Yes Mary would tell and was silenced. Makes sense. Hope they have been checking under the stone walls he was seen building. Safe place to hide a body.
Yes Mary would tell and was silenced. Makes sense. Hope they have been checking under the stone walls he was seen building. Safe place to hide a body.
Would he be so cold sick and bold?There were extensive searches, but then it took over two hours for the 'family' to call the police...The mothers behaviour is very strange indeed.
There were extensive searches, but obviously only around where she was last seen.
There were extensive searches, but then it took over two hours for the 'family' to call the police...The mothers behaviour is very strange indeed.
It is indeed but if she is protectng her brother its not strange at all
As for not calling the police, thats not to strange in this case as she could very well have got lost or had an accident, in a very remote part of the country no one suspects abductors
Someone within that small family/community killed that poor child defacto and I hope theyre caught
Calling the police would have enablled more people to search no? Maybe it's just me, but If my child dissapeared first thing I would do is phone the police and grab as many people to search whilst waiting on them arranging professional input and getting more bodies to help. In this case, at that time, their was a heavy police presence due to the border sectarian troubles at that time, as one police oficer closed to the case documented more than once.
We shall agree to disagree my friend. 8(0(*
The alleged intervention in the Ballyshannon case by a politician is remarkable.
it is also "remarkable " that noone wanted to touch the case and continues to this day at senior levels
May the fleas of a thusand camels infest them
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Mary Boyle disappeared on March 18, 1977 as she was visiting her grandparents’ remote farmyard in Cashelard outside Ballyshannon.
The 82-minute documentary, which was made by journalist Gemma O’Doherty, was published on Youtube. It clocked up thousands of views since its release and kick started a renewed campaign to see justice done for the six-year-old girl who disappeared in rural Donegal in 1977.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vGORoCbpXw&t
Mary Boyle disappeared on March 18, 1977 as she was visiting her grandparents’ remote farmyard in Cashelard outside Ballyshannon.
The 82-minute documentary, which was made by journalist Gemma O’Doherty, was published on Youtube. It clocked up thousands of views since its release and kick started a renewed campaign to see justice done for the six-year-old girl who disappeared in rural Donegal in 1977.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vGORoCbpXw&t
so how accurate is her documentary on Mary Boyle....looks like you have decided with no evidence its accurate
I watched it the first day it was released on youtube. I agree with it. The last person with her knows the truth and Mary Boyle disappeared because of him. I posted on here about it at the time of release.
I dont know anything about the Mary Boyle case but having looked at her initial thoughts on the mccann case Im very unimpressed. Her observations so far...Gerrys body language...laughing on the balcony...Kates failure to answer 48 questions...and for some reason their trip to Donegal. Hardly investigative journalism..........im expecting dogs dont lie tomorrow
Serial child killer Robert Black regularly travelled through Donegal in his job as a lorry driver. The circumstances surrounding Mary Boyle's disappearance in my opinion match the modus operandi for some of the many killings Black carried out.
Why on earth is there this mad rush to obliterate centuries of due process in preference to deciding not the guilt or innocence of individuals ... but ALWAYS the guilt ... all based on conspiracy theories and distorted interpretation of the evidence?
One must be careful that "justice for Mary" doesn't mean "injustice" for the man reported on the internet as having attended Mass this week.
Was Black ever questioned about Mary Boyle ?
He was convicted of Jennifer Cardy's murder thirty years after the event ... he was suspected of other killings and apparently died just as he was about to be charged with that of Genette Tate.
In my opinion, one of the differences between police investigations into crime and incursions by investigative journalists is the former can only progress dependent on evidence which will stand in court, whereas the latter consider themselves prosecution, judge and jury based on what passes for evidence to meet their satisfaction.
I didn't ask for your opinion. I asked whether Robert Black had ever been questioned about the death of a Mary Boyle. The answer appears to be no, which seems strange to me if he had been long suspected of it and had been questioned and convicted of several other historic murders.So you chide Brietta for giving her opinion. then immediately give your opinion ?
As to your opinion, do you agree then that Anthony Summers book has no worth either being........whereas the latter ( investigative journalists ) consider themselves prosecution, judge and jury based on what passes for evidence to meet their satisfaction ?
I didn't ask for your opinion. I asked whether Robert Black had ever been questioned about the death of a Mary Boyle. The answer appears to be no, which seems strange to me if he had been long suspected of it and had been questioned and convicted of several other historic murders.
As to your opinion, do you agree then that Anthony Summers book has no worth either being........whereas the latter ( investigative journalists ) consider themselves prosecution, judge and jury based on what passes for evidence to meet their satisfaction ?
I didn't ask for your opinion. I asked whether Robert Black had ever been questioned about the death of a Mary Boyle. The answer appears to be no, which seems strange to me if he had been long suspected of it and had been questioned and convicted of several other historic murders.
As to your opinion, do you agree then that Anthony Summers book has no worth either being........whereas the latter ( investigative journalists ) consider themselves prosecution, judge and jury based on what passes for evidence to meet their satisfaction ?
Actually my answer is not "no" it would be "I do not know but highly likely as he was obviously questioned about many others, not forgetting that his driving job took him to Europe."
In my opinion he would find it enjoyable to toy with the police and relish taking enjoyment from prolonging the agony of the parents of a missing child just by the simple device of keeping quiet.
Others choose to pile on the agony by the simple device of never ceasing to spout utter nonsense. It takes all kinds.
What is superior is listening to the police and how the last witness statements kept changing and were full of contradictions. He didn't even answer the mother at the wall about seeing the child. She wasn't reported missing until hours later. He has a lot to answer for and the police were told to back off when they believe they were getting a confession.
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A mother who is covering up her own daughter’s disappearance offers consolation to the McCanns. Ann Boyle also admits she knows the McCanns due to their connections in her part of Donegal #McCann #MaryBoyle
So is it a fact that Anne Boyle is covering up her daughters death.......or is odoherty making things up
is it a fact thai Anne boyle knows the MCCanns or is this just more fantasy
If she & uncle went more or less in straight line between the two house, it would seem unlikely that she could have encountered Black, unless he was well off the road, and away from his van/lorry
I suppose in the final analysis the efficacy of the result will be judged on whether the girls parents were McCann supporters or sceptics.
sort of as in the punchline of a Weegie joke "stop p*****g us aboot Jimmy are yous a Catholic Jew or a Protestant Jew ?".
If Robert Black had been a prime suspect in the Mary Boyle case you would assume he had been questioned rigorously at least once by the Irish police, wouldn't you, and yet although we know of several children's disappearance he was questioned over there is no documentary evidence that he was ever questioned over Mary.
Maddie’s Irish Family Speaks Out
September 24, 2007
By Paddy Clancy
MISSING British toddler Madeleine McCann’s Donegal-born grandmother, Eileen McCann, has stoutly defended the child’s parents after they were named as formal suspects in the disappearance.
Eileen McCann said her son Gerry and his wife Kate would never do anything to harm their child. She claimed there was no substantial evidence linking the couple to the disappearance; that the Portuguese police were “just clutching at straws.”
Eileen added in an interview with Donegal’s Highland Radio that she was convinced whoever took three-year-old Madeleine from the family’s holiday apartment in Portugal had drugged her beforehand.
“If she was taken by somebody she did not know when she was sleeping she would have screamed the place down. I really believe they gave her a drug. There is no way they carried her out of there without her wakening,” Eileen said.
Congregations in churches throughout Donegal prayed last weekend for the McCann family after Portuguese police revealed they were suspects.
Portuguese investigators are reported to believe Maddie may have been accidentally killed by her mother and that in a desperate cover-up bid, Gerry helped bury the body at sea.
Friends and relatives in Donegal were stunned when the theory was reported, but quickly rallied to support of the stricken family when some legal experts warned that the evidence against them was almost non-existent.
Leading Irish barrister Anthony McDermott said the Portuguese police had nothing that could secure a conviction, based on the evidence already leaked by them. The evidence includes claims that police dogs had sniffed out the scent of death in the holiday apartment and in a car hired by the McCann’s 25 days after the disappearance.
“It’s a non-existent case, unless there’s something else,” McDermott said.
Little Madeleine disappeared in Portugal’s popular Algarve tourist province in May, just weeks after she holidayed with her family in Donegal at Easter. They spent more than a week in the Rosses area, staying mostly in a boarding house in Dungloe.
Madeleine and two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie were with their parents and their great-uncle Hughie, as well as their grandmother Eileen, also known as Ellen, who was born in the area.
Eileen was a member of a Ferry family with links to the villages of Crolly and Burtonport. In the mid-1960s she married Hughie’s brother Johnny McCann from St. Johnston in east Donegal and they emigrated to Scotland.
The Easter holiday was one of many that family members used to take in Donegal almost every year, but rarely did so many of them travel together to Ireland before.
On their way back to Belfast Airport they stopped at a pub in St. Johnston which Hughie and Johnny owned before they emigrated.
Current owner Joe Peoples said when Maddie disappeared, “They always made a point of calling in for a couple of drinks and a chat.
“The little girl, Maddie, was running around in the bar, playing away and really enjoying herself. She’s such a beautiful child, a wee dote.
“I’m praying for the phone call that will tell me she has been found and that she is okay.”
Peoples said Maddie’s dad Gerry is proud of his Donegal roots. “They keep very much in touch. They came to St. Johnston almost every year –- the years they missed were few and far between.
“This year they just decided they would like to spend a little more time around the Rosses so they opted to stay in Dungloe.”
Maddie’s parents, both physicians, have returned from Portugal to their home in England where, according to the Daily Mail, lawyers acting for them are going back through Portuguese newspapers to look for evidence of “black propaganda” planted by police.
They hope to be able to prove that Portuguese detectives have been leaking negative stories about the McCanns in a bid to besmirch them.
The McCanns also this week brought in former British Foreign Office official Clarence Mitchell to act as the family spokesman.
http://www.irishabroad.com/Modules/CMS/Articles/DSSPrintArticle.aspx?ArticleID=1832
If Robert Black had been a prime suspect in the Mary Boyle case you would assume he had been questioned rigorously at least once by the Irish police, wouldn't you, and yet although we know of several children's disappearance he was questioned over there is no documentary evidence that he was ever questioned over Mary.
Please attempt to get your facts straight.
No one on this forum suggested that Robert Black was a prime suspect in Mary Boyle's disappearance, perhaps the media did. I said that in my opinion Mary's disappearance matched the preferred technique used by a convicted child killer known to have worked in Donegal.
If there is to be a cold case review including taking a look at the possibility that Robert Black could have had something to do with Mary's disappearance, confirmation of the possibility would include evidence which would place him in the vicinity of where Mary was last seen and that may exist.
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Mary vanished in Cashelard in March 1977. Former detective Clark says he has evidence van driver Black was working in the area at the time.
Clark said Black returned in 1978, raising fears he was hunting for another victim.
“There is confirmation that when Mary went missing Black was a regular visitor at a pub in County Donegal. He appears on a Garda charge sheet for after hours drinking,” he said.
http://www.donegaldaily.com/2014/07/27/cold-case-expert-robert-black-killed-mary-boyle-and-came-back-to-donegal-intending-to-kill-again/
Just because a conspiracy theorist has decided she 'knows' better than the police ... why ignore the fact that Mary could have fallen victim to a child serial killer who might have used his tried and tested method for bundling little girls into his van ... and go with the conspiracy yet again.
I despair of the ease with which the rule of law is being cast aside by some to be replaced with a cheer leader ~ a video camera ~ the internet and a mandatory baying mob.
There is a burden of proof required to enable justice to work. Sigh ... how lightly our rights are dispensed with to be so lightly replaced by the proper camera angle ~ preferably a fly over drone ~ and the ever present conspiracy theory.
Every 'burglary gone wrong', ' child smuggling network and 'it was the gypsies what done it' in this case is a conspiracy theory. Not sure I've ever heard you complain about those.
My, my Miss O hasn't even published her article yet and the knives are out ! Poor woman, she doesn't know what she's let herself in for.
Hmmm ... "Black may also have been responsible for several other unsolved child murders throughout Britain, Ireland and continental Europe between 1969 and 1987."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Black_(serial_killer)
If a child serial killer was in the area from which Mary Black disappeared at the time she disappeared in my opinion it would be a bit of an oversight to rule him out of the equation in favour of some conspiracy theory or other.
Black was convicted of killing one Irish child, nine year old Jennifer Cardy. So he was there.
Another Irish child vanished, six year old Mary Boyle. He may have been there.
How many other Irish girls of that age have been abducted and murdered by a stranger? Why these two girls from areas where Black's driving job took him?
Of course it is possible but we have no evidence Black was ever questioned about the disappearance of Mary Boyle and several policemen working on the case at the time certainly believe the blame lies elsewhere and they obviously are party to more information than us.
Every 'burglary gone wrong', ' child smuggling network and 'it was the gypsies what done it' in this case is a conspiracy theory. Not sure I've ever heard you complain about those.
My, my Miss O hasn't even published her article yet and the knives are out ! Poor woman, she doesn't know what she's let herself in for.
Who told the police to back off.....any evidence
It took a long time to link the atrocities perpetrated by this man to him ... I believe HOLMES may have been used in Jennifer Cardy's case many years after he killed her ... and the forensics he left behind helped to convict him thirty years down the line.
The police have absolutely no idea how many little girls may have fallen victim to this man nor do they know where many of them were thrown like so much rubbish ... in my opinion probably in water as it features in killings where there was enough evidence to convict him.
A retired detective claims to have proof Black was in Paderborn when Katrice Lee vanished ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3592580/Did-serial-killer-Robert-Black-snatch-two-year-old-girl-British-Army-base-Germany-three-decades-ago.html
In my opinion it is reprehensible to accuse people who may be innocent of any crime particularly if there is obviously not sufficient evidence to warrant the police investigating under caution.
It is even more reprehensible for this doyen of the conspiracy theory to point an accusatory finger at Mary Boyle's mother which will no doubt encourager les autres.
There are many crimes which Black may have been guilty of and only his carelessness or arrogance enabled his eventual downfall to enable anyone to link his movements to any of them.
In my opinion the extraordinary denial of the presence of serial killers and kidnappers in our world in preference to mounting a hue and cry of conspiracy when a child disappears is highly intriguing particularly as it deflects from the task of eliminating a monster from our society.
The link you posts re Katrice Lee.......another conspiracy theory ? 8(0(*
You appear to be quite determined that small girls are prone to vanishing without any help from known child killers ... have you never thought we could dispense with the criminal justice system altogether if a theory backed by a video sufficed?The link you posted is to Katrice Lee.
If Robert Black or someone like him can be proved to have been in the areas from where little girls vanished at the time I think it is worth a thought. Sometimes benefit of hindsight is useful in building profiles to be of use in the future protection of vulnerable children.
In my opinion witch hunts don't come close to achieving that.
The link you posted is to Katrice Lee.
Is there any connection to Robert Black, or to the topic title, Mary Boyle?
Have you watched the video about Robert Black? It wasn't him - that was a remote spot and all vehicles seen were investigated. Family members and police say they know who it was and he was protected.
Have you watched the video about Robert Black? It wasn't him - that was a remote spot and all vehicles seen were investigated. Family members and police say they know who it was and he was protected.
Most murdered children are caused by family or friends not Robert Black.
You appear to be quite determined that small girls are prone to vanishing without any help from known child killers ... have you never thought we could dispense with the criminal justice system altogether if a theory backed by a video sufficed?
If Robert Black or someone like him can be proved to have been in the areas from where little girls vanished at the time I think it is worth a thought. Sometimes benefit of hindsight is useful in building profiles to be of use in the future protection of vulnerable children.
In my opinion witch hunts don't come close to achieving that.
Of course small girls are abducted and killed by known child killers but far more are killed by those closest to them such as family members.
When family members are involved I think you will find it is rarely two biological parents.... It usually involves broken familiar
Of course small girls are abducted and killed by known child killers but far more are killed by those closest to them such as family members.
In my opinion your generalisation is not applicable at a time and place in which a known serial killer of little girls may well have been operating.
May being the operative word.There's that, plus the fact the County Donegal has an area only fractionally smaller than the Algarve. In other words, that alone doesn't cut it down much.
May being the operative word.
There's that, plus the fact the County Donegal has an area only fractionally smaller than the Algarve. In other words, that alone doesn't cut it down much.
To make a link, one needs to place Black somewhere close to where Mary Boyle disappeared, around the time of her disappearance.
Otherwise it is pure speculation.
It is not my speculation ... if you follow the links I have provided proof of his proximity has been claimed.
On the other hand ... don't you find it strange to be defending a child serial killer's right not to be speculated about in a missing child case ... but it seems to be fine to accept others to speculate in the vilest terms about an innocent member of the community?
It is not my speculation ... if you follow the links I have provided proof of his proximity has been claimed.As far as I can tell from the two links you have provided, Robert Black is alleged to have drunk at a pub in southern County Donegal, whilst the police investigation was conducted in northern County Donegal. If my understanding is incorrect, please provide clarification thereof.
On the other hand ... don't you find it strange to be defending a child serial killer's right not to be speculated about in a missing child case ... but it seems to be fine to accept others to speculate in the vilest terms about an innocent member of the community?
As far as I can tell from the two links you have provided, Robert Black is alleged to have drunk at a pub in southern County Donegal, whilst the police investigation was conducted in northern County Donegal. If my understanding is incorrect, please provide clarification thereof.
Throwing any old speculation into the pot will not progress justice for Mary Boyle.
No, I think that is right, By road they look to be about 50km apart.There is an interesting article at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_ripper_and_the_swedish_murders on the BBC today.
Not even sure that the exact times coincide either. Sightings quoted as a year before and a year after Mary's disappearance, i.e. 2 years between sighting in the pub. No information of where he might have been in between times.
I think it is more about the willingness of some posters to latch onto anyone who has any connection in time or place to the point of the disappearance and imply that that person is in some way involved.
As far as I can tell from the two links you have provided, Robert Black is alleged to have drunk at a pub in southern County Donegal, whilst the police investigation was conducted in northern County Donegal. If my understanding is incorrect, please provide clarification thereof.
Throwing any old speculation into the pot will not progress justice for Mary Boyle.
There is an interesting article at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_ripper_and_the_swedish_murders on the BBC today.
There were two murders in Sweden when Peter Sutcliffe was on his killing spree. On the date of one of the murders, Sutcliffe was working in Sweden. The killings had similarities to several of the Sutcliffe murders.
As far as I can tell, that's about it.
Sutcliffe may be the culprit, but on this evidence, charges would not stand up in a criminal court. So it is speculation.
There's that, plus the fact the County Donegal has an area only fractionally smaller than the Algarve. In other words, that alone doesn't cut it down much.
To make a link, one needs to place Black somewhere close to where Mary Boyle disappeared, around the time of her disappearance.
Otherwise it is pure speculation.
As is the speculation fed by Gemma O'Doherty: will that stand up in a criminal court?
It would appear that Brietta is quite happy to accuse Black of a part in Mary's disappearance without evidence but not Mary's family.
I'm not sure how far down the slippery slope of libel you are sliding with that post, maybe John will decide. But just for the record ... I have not accused Black of having a part in Mary's disappearance ... just as I have not accused anyone else.
What a pity others have not done likewise.
The former Garda sergeant who investigated the case has stated categorically that Blacks involvement was impossible. I'm not surprised frankly given the location and everything else I personally know about Donegal.
It would appear that Brietta is quite happy to accuse Black of a part in Mary's disappearance without evidence but not Mary's family.
Well he is dead.
The other person mentioned in the post is not, and is easily recognisable to those followers of social media with an interest in "justice" for Mary but with scant regard for an accusation based on nothing more than speculation.
NB the post you are replying to above has been pointed out as being mistaken ... didn't you notice?
Saying you are not willing to accuse the family is not libel.
The other person mentioned in the post is not, and is easily recognisable to those followers of social media with an interest in "justice" for Mary but with scant regard for an accusation based on nothing more than speculation.
NB the post you are replying to above has been pointed out as being mistaken ... didn't you notice?
'I saw Mary being driven away in a red car'- fisherman believes he saw Mary Boyle (6) being 'lifted'
Catherine Devine
July 14 2016 12:13 PM
Fisherman PJ Coughlan has said he saw a red Volkswagen Beetle speeding away from the area that Mary went missing ten minutes before he saw Mary’s uncle Gerry frantically searching for her.
“I believe I saw her being driven away in a car. There’s no doubt in my mind she was lifted,” told the Irish Daily Star.
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Coughlan (73) told the Irish Daily Star: “He came to the top of the mountain shouting “Mary, Mary. Where are you?” He was looking for his niece… he was upset surely.”
Coughlan was the first person at the Garda station in Ballyshannon in 1977 to report Mary’s disappearance. He said he told gardai about the car but he claimed that this wasn’t recorded because the gardai already had a suspect.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/i-saw-mary-being-driven-away-in-a-red-car-fisherman-believes-he-saw-mary-boyle-6-being-lifted-34883293.html
At least one independent witness saw and reported a vehicle in the area that Mary disappeared from ... might have been an idea to trace it to check it out.
They should have investigated the wall he was building/fixing at the time or any other foundations/building work.
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'I saw Mary being driven away in a red car'- fisherman believes he saw Mary Boyle (6) being 'lifted'
Catherine Devine
July 14 2016 12:13 PM
Fisherman PJ Coughlan has said he saw a red Volkswagen Beetle speeding away from the area that Mary went missing ten minutes before he saw Mary’s uncle Gerry frantically searching for her.
“I believe I saw her being driven away in a car. There’s no doubt in my mind she was lifted,” told the Irish Daily Star.
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Coughlan (73) told the Irish Daily Star: “He came to the top of the mountain shouting “Mary, Mary. Where are you?” He was looking for his niece… he was upset surely.”
Coughlan was the first person at the Garda station in Ballyshannon in 1977 to report Mary’s disappearance. He said he told gardai about the car but he claimed that this wasn’t recorded because the gardai already had a suspect.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/i-saw-mary-being-driven-away-in-a-red-car-fisherman-believes-he-saw-mary-boyle-6-being-lifted-34883293.html
At least one independent witness saw and reported a vehicle in the area that Mary disappeared from ... might have been an idea to trace it to check it out.
The BBC and Madeleine: How the public were misled about a key sighting that could help to unlock the mystery of her disappearance. My investigation will be in @VillageMagIRE this weekend #McCann
Apologies for my ignorance but what exactly is @VillageMagIRE ? Is it Twitter?Village Magazine
Apologies for my ignorance but what exactly is @VillageMagIRE ? Is it Twitter?
https://villagemagazine.ie/
http://www.newstalk.com/Donald-Trump-Ireland-magazine-Village-cover-Hitler-visit-Michael-Smith
Seems to be a monthly magazine which is available in newsagents.
Not sure about access. Certainly some of December 2017 edition is available online.
Someone will post it up I'm sure, particularly if it is in the least pejorative towards the McCanns.
Journalist Gemma O'Doherty announces intention to run for presidencyInteresting that she was made compulsorily redundant after doorstepping a high ranking police officer who had penalty points wiped from his license.
http://www.thejournal.ie/journalist-gemma-odoherty-announces-she-will-run-for-presidency-4190255-Aug2018/
Interesting that she was made compulsorily redundant after doorstepping a high ranking police officer who had penalty points wiped from his license.
It seems that she was unfairly dismissed;Quite right too! Yet some think Martin Brunt should have been sacked for his doorstepping antics.
Independent Newspapers unreservedly apologise to Ms O’Doherty for the stress and hardship caused to her and her husband as a result of its actions.
Independent Newspapers have agreed to pay Ms Doherty undisclosed damages and to idemnify her in relation to her legal costs.
http://www.thejournal.ie/gemma-odoherty-independent-equality-tribunal-1848038-Dec2014/
Quite right too! Yet some think Martin Brunt should have been sacked for his doorstepping antics.
They may have behaved in a similar manner, but their reasons and their targets were very different.The principle is the same, doorstepping someone perceived to have done something wrong in order to report it in the media.
Quite right too! Yet some think Martin Brunt should have been sacked for his doorstepping antics.
Not quite the same at all Vertigo Swirl.So who can and can’t be doorstepped in your view?
Gemma O'Doherty was doorstepping a senior policeman who seems to have been breaking the law. Brenda was neither a senior police officer nor breaking the law.
So who can and can’t be doorstepped in your view?
I would imagine no one who hadn't been arrested or charged now following the Cliff Richard BBC mess.So a law against allowing the press to doorstep anyone should be enacted in your view?
IMO no individual should ever be doorstepped even those cowboy builders that presenters follow up the street to get ratings up.
Doorstepping is not about news it is about notoriety for the presenter and the TV show IMO. And IMO that goes for Sonia Poulton who I have read doorstepped the McCanns too before you ask.
So a law against allowing the press to doorstep anyone should be enacted in your view?One of the most popular TV programs in NZ is called "Fair Go" and one of the common occurrences are the reporters doorstepping the people ripping others off.
So a law against allowing the press to doorstep anyone should be enacted in your view?
Personally yes, if they haven't been charged with a crime as I said earlier I think Sonia Poulton was very wrong to try to do the same to the Mccanns.Personally I think you are talking about restricting the freedom of the press and I disagree with you. Doorstepping is a very common journalistic practice and not only of people suspected of or involved in criminal activity.
Personally I think you are talking about restricting the freedom of the press and I disagree with you. Doorstepping is a very common journalistic practice and not only of people suspected of or involved in criminal activity.
Don’t you believe that the media doorstepping individuals who are being investigated may jeopardise any future court case ?They are civil case matters not criminal matters.
Don’t you believe that the media doorstepping individuals who are being investigated may jeopardise any future court case ?Can you give any examples where this has been the case?
So a law against allowing the press to doorstep anyone should be enacted in your view?