LEVESON - LEICESTERSHIRE POLICE KNEW PORTUGUESE POLICE LEAKS WERE UNTRUE

My friends, this was taken from JATYK:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/mar/19/leveson-inquiry-twomey-murray-lawton-live

"4.28pm: Lawton says he believes the Daily Star's coverage Madeleine McCann disappearance could have gone a different way if the Leicestershire police had briefed reporters off the record.

He remembers how the Portuguese police leaked to their journalists that "forensic test results positively showed that linked her to the hire car, that her parents didn't hire till three or four weeks after she had disappeared".

Those forensic test results became a bone of contention between the UK and Portuguese police. The Leicestershire police did not think the results had shown that but chose not to correct this.

"I don't understand why Leicestershire police on this occasion, even if it was unreportable, did not brief, 'this was not right, the leak was wrong'," he says.

4.32pm: Lawton appeals to Leveson not to recommend restricting police relations with the press.

"I am just looking at the climate we are in and the doors are shutting everywhere … if it's not endemic then you do have the old sledgehammer and nut scenario," he says.

4.40pm: Lawton has now finished giving evidence."

Well this bit of news ie that Leic Police believed that the forensic evidence showed nothing, must come as a big shock to a few pitchforkers and would be authors who cling to that old furphy as though it is a liferaft.

Yes, I agree with you dianeh.