Then can you explain why - if ''the papers now only print what meets the approval of the parents,' - The Times has recently had to pay compensation of £50,000 for printing lies about them?
The outrageous lies printed in the press about Madeleine McCann's parents did not come about by accident.
The 'leaks' were part of an orchestrated campaign designed not to find a missing child, but to secure a conviction and close the case.
Why change a winning formula?; if it has already proved a success in previous cases what's wrong with using it to 'solve' crimes irrespective of whether or not it allows criminals to walk free to commit further crimes.
Make no mistake about it, the PJ used the media not so much as an investigative tool but as a means to destroy the names and reputations of those they had decided were guilty of the crime.
Easy to defame a resident couple of poor country people.
Not so easy to do the same to a professional couple, but a highly productive defamation campaign based on pejorative leaks to the press might well have succeeded had lessons not been learned in British officialdom from the Rachel Charles case when a British citizen ended up in prison as a result of being 'fitted up' by the PJ.
When one sees the type of charges laid against Cristovao, one of the main conduits of the defamatory leaks from 'a source close to the investigation' one shudders. The nature of the reasons for his dismissal from the PJ were bad enough, but just what was this man capable of?
What I did find interesting was his allegation of 'racism' particularly as the allegation of 'racism' has been levelled yet again by posters to this forum.
Lessons have certainly been learned and ingrained.
Madeleine: The damning case against the police by Britain's top investigative reporterBy DAVID ROSE
Last updated at 01:33 21 April 2008
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snipThere was a further parallel with the McCann case - leaks, apparently from police sources, to the media. One of the most damaging, Rosado said, was the suggestion that human blood, probably Joana's, had been found in the Ciprianos' fridge.
It was only when Leonor and Joao went on trial for murder that it emerged that this had never been DNA-matched to Joana and might even have come from some meat.
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snipAmaral faces charges of negligence and falso testimunho - perjury --under Article 360 of the Portuguese penal code, a crime punishable by up to three years in prison.
Cardoso is accused of fabricating a document.
Marques, Bom and Cristovao are charged with torture, for which the maximum penalty is five years.
In Britain, it seems unlikely that officers facing charges of this kind would still be on duty, but last week Amaral was at work in the PJ office in Faro.
Through his lawyer, Antonio Cabrita, he refused to discuss either the Joana or Madeleine cases.
As for Cristovao, he left the PJ after the Joana case to become a writer.
Last year, as a columnist for Diario de Noticias, he became a prolific commentator on the Madeleine inquiry, writing a series of articles apparently derived in part from conversations with his former colleagues.
Last month, with the publication of his book The Star Of Madeleine, currently the Algarve's No3 bestseller, he has mounted a robust defence of the PJ in general and Amaral in particular.
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The book, much of it composed of a fictional dialogue between two fictional PJ officers, Francisco and Joao, recycles some of the cruellest smears against the McCanns, such as the claim that Gerry did not get sufficiently involved in the children's routines.
Such information, it claims, gave the police "an idea how the family functioned".
It also contains details that can have come only from inside the investigation: as a view of PJ thinking, it may well be as authentic an account as has yet been given.
If so, its conclusions are shocking, among them the view that Madeleine is dead and that if her parents did not kill her physically, they did so by their public campaign to find her.
"The publicity given to her face was her death warrant - that's if she really left that apartment still alive," he writes.
Cristovao refused to meet me, saying that too many British journalists were "racist".
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