Baron Pepperpot
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BBC have named a person under arrest, but not yet charged 
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April Jones, Missing Girl in Wales
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Mackenzie
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Hopefully they are torturing her location out of him as we speak.
Baron Pepperpot
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My point being, that from previous occasions, it is best not to name people until charged or even convicted.
Mackenzie
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Oh, you probably don't want the torturing either then
hitony
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I think he has been charged now hasnt he? i know he has been named, its on the welsh news now.......
hitony
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Ahhh he has been held for questioning but not charged by the sounds of it.
Mackenzie
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Not being funny, but if they've got the bloke they need to force information out of him. We're too soft in this country.
Baron Pepperpot
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He may be the right person. But the point is, supposing he isn't ? (like many before). They'll be a few bricks through his window regardless. People shouldn't be named until things are sure.
somerset
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Re: Missing Girl in Wales
British law says a suspect cannot be named until formally charged, unlike the States where it is a free for all.
British law says a suspect cannot be named until formally charged, unlike the States where it is a free for all.
hitony
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Well he has deffo been named....
The Modfather
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He was named on the BBC news at 10 tonight
Bold Seagull
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I don't think the Police have named him at all. The press obtained his name from other sources locally.
hitony
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Well if they hadnt before (and the name i just heard yesterday on the news is the same one i have just heard today!) they have now.
It wasn't going to take long before his name was put into the media due to how small the community is there. Agree the media shouldn't be giving it out though until more formal charges are made. Just keep thinking back to that Bristol murder and the poor guy arrested over that.
hitony
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The POLICE have given his name out.
Lord Bracknell
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As they often do in cases like this.
Maybe they have now, I haven't seen it to be honest - but I'm sure that wasn't the case when I saw a Sky News tweet yesterday saying something like "Sky Sources believe the man arrested is...".
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desprateseagull
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heard the man's name mentioned a lot on tv news yesterday - 'was named locally' (whatever thaqt means), though at the time police were declining to name a suspect they had..
the police have since confirmed name themselves, so not sure how law stands now..
the police have since confirmed name themselves, so not sure how law stands now..