Not sure how anyone else thinks about this but I think anyone associated with a crime, i.e. a suspect, should be 100% anonymous until they are found guilty

I'm just reading about the Jo Yeates murder and Sky news keep putting up the landlords picture and saying he was released but is still a 'suspect' ...why the hell are papers etc allowed to ruin a persons reputation because someone is 'suspected' of doing something?!

The lives of suspected rapist, murderers, any crime really are ruined to some degree by this accusation and public announcement that police THINK they did something...I think it is disgusting.

How would any of us feel if we were accused of being a child abuser...and it went on Sky news with our picture...even though nothing was ever proved...just cos a nosy neigh suspected it?! We'd be devastated - and that how anyone accused of doing something feels when they know they didn't do it but can do nothing to really clear their name.

I think everyone should be innocent until proven guilty. In the case of this country you are guilty until it may have been proven you are actually innocent by which time your rep is in tatters and people are buring down your house/harrasing your family etc...

I think people should be kept anonymous until it has been proven beyond reasonable doubt that they did it. I think it is disgusting the papers labelling this guy as a murderer when in fact he might just be an innocent (albeit slightly creepy looking) old man xxxx

I totally agree - its not fair at all! Many people may think it is but as you say if it happened to you or your family you would soon change your mind!

My cousin was falsely accused of rape, and while its still being looked at by the CPS (I think), 5 yrs later no decision has been made about court. It ruined my family for a while, and has impacted on him emigrating to australia as its still hanging over him. If he ended up in the papers my family would be distraught. I went to school with the girl and to be blunt she aint all there. She has made accusations before and been 'paid off'. She is an evil cow . Her family are loaded and live near my cousin and even took to driving past my cousins older sis who was pg really slow and giving her dirty looks from their range rover. Things like that scar the person & their family. Iv seen the impact and thats even before the press get involved!!!

I know some people may disagree with my example as its a rape case, iv saw it argued that in rape cases they need as many women to come forward as possible to secure a conviction so suspects should be made public. I totally disagree! Victims get to remain annonymous (rightly), but what gets my goat is the women who lie and ruin mens lives and still get to remain annoymous - even after it was proved to be a spiteful claim (Im not talking about people who it may have happened/eg not enough evidence, i mean pre meditated lies)

i think its very sad for those that have been wrongly accused of rape/child molestation and what not to be named ! ,,i am a magazing hound true life stories blah blah blah and so many have killed themselves or had their worlds turned upside down , been tortured houses vandalized

there should be a ban !

I totally agree Lisa.

My cousin was an upper school teacher and one of his 6th form pupils developed a crush on him and when she realised he didn't feel the same way about her (obviously as he is not only her teacher but a hapily married father of two babies ) she became very spiteful and falsly accused him of 'touching' her intimately . He was suspended immediately and put through hell with the courts etc but the worst part of it was that his full name AND address was printed in the papers and he bacame the victim of a local hate campaign . His house was graffitied on with awful abuse and regularly had awful notes (including pics of and threats towards his wife and babies) put through the door and eggs (and other mingin stuff) thrown at their windows. He had two babies under two in the house at the time and they had to move house twice to get away from it. Both he and his wife ended up on anti Ds because of it and he ended up having a breakdown when social services told him he wasn't allowed to ever be unsupervised around his own children. All this when he had done absolutely nothing wrong - just some horrible little biatch that decided one day to try to ruin an innocent persons life, career and (almost) marriage . After months and months of being dragged through courts and cross examined he was proven not guilty but shit sticks, he lived in a small community in Cumbria and couldn't get work after this. Thankfully they have moved and got back on track now and he has managed to get his career back on track.

What annoys me most about this case though is that the 'girl' (she was 17 when she made the accusition but 19 when it was all over) has had absolutely no consequences for her false claims and all the hurt it caused. Because she was classed as a minor at the start she had full protetction and has never been named or appeared in court and even afterwards when she was an adult she was protected. I think the way our CPS works in this country is absolutely disgusting and something needs to be done

xx

I totally agree.
I understand to a degree that the newspapers are under pressure to get news out to the public about what is happening but that does not have to include people's full names and addresses, just vague details would suffice. It's just devastating what happens to people's lives who are falsely accused.

i was thinking exactley the same lisa when i saw the headlines yestoday. poort bloke if he's done nothing his reputation will be ruined, people will just think no smoke without fire kinda thing!! i think they should be anonymous until found guilty x

Weve just been talking about this at work today, like already said why is it a case of guilty until proven innocent in this country. xx