AAP General News (Australia)
08-16-2011
QLD:Experts warn off Morcombe police praise
Civil libertarians are saying senior police and politicians should have saved their
praise of the DANIEL MORCOMBE investigation until after the accused's trial.
Queensland Council for Civil Liberties president MICHAEL COPE says comments made after
a man was charged on Saturday with murdering the Sunshine Coast boy, were ill-timed.
He says it's inappropriate to be heaping praise on the police which gives the implication
they have the right person and the right result.
Leading criminologist PAUL WILSON agrees it's a fine line, and says the presumption
of innocence must be kept.
The search for DANIEL'S body continues in muddy bushland on the coast today.
The accused, a Perth father-of-three, will fight charges of murder, deprivation of
liberty, child stealing, indecent treatment of a child and interfering with a corpse.
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KEYWORD: MORCOMBE (BRISBANE)
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