There is no getting away from it that EP were useless.
The " person seen in the window ".Was it a person,or was it a " trick of the light ?"
Were the lights on in the farmhouse,or were they off ?
Was Sheila found on the bed or not ?
Was it a rifle at the window,or not ?
Was the rifle found on Sheila,or beside her ?
Was the Bible found on her chest,or was it on the floor away from her body ?
There are loads of questions,and each newspaper that was published all had different answers to which it would only have been the police giving their story.
Because of this ongoing uncertainty,is it any wonder that the case was a dodgy one ?
Newspapers DO elaborate for the sensationalist factor which sells them. People have been awarded thousands through the tabloids/broadsheets for giving out wrong information. It's happened often.
The McCanns, their friends and Robert Murat.