"the press pack in Praia da Luz has turned the story
all too rapidly into “it must be him”. Robert Murat’s face has featured in
almost every news bulletin and paper for the past 48 hours. But it is not
remotely clear that he had anything to do with it. "
Sentiments of which I have wriiten elsewhere within this blog.She continues
"
We learnt yesterday that Mr Murat “was always on the
bouncy castle” at work events. Must be a monster, then. Picture editors picked
the oddest shots they could find, and proceeded to pronounce solemnly on how
weird he looked – although he didn’t look weird to me, just harassed. "
And perhaps this is the truth of the matter as concerns the press
"
It is not only because the story is abroad that the press feels uninhibited. Our
treatment of Mr Murat echoes that of Tom Stephens, the first man to be named as
a suspect by police investigating the murders of five women in Ipswich last
year. He too had originally approached the press, which splashed the
weirdest-looking pictures of him they could find. A week later a completely
different man was charged with all five crimes. "
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