The Sun takes a stand on tasteless tours

The Sun were quick to criticise ‘goulish tourists’ who were taking tours around the hotel complex in Praia da Luz where Madeleine McCann went missing over a year ago.

The report said that some of the ’sick sightseers’ were even taking snaps of their children outside the hotel room were Maddie was believed to have been abducted from.

It was even suggested that the tours were official with tour guides.

The very idea of such prurient curiosity and interference into the private grieving of a family, especially with a mind to profit from it, is clearly offensive to an organisation which has shifted millions of newspapers on the story which has had very few genuine developments since it broke.

And as Anorak News point out, the Sun’s sister paper the News of the World were the first to give the British public a guided tour into the McCann’s holiday flat. They played a very tasteful child catcher hide and seek, suggesting methods in which the devious fiend could have grabbed Maddie and avoided the returning Kate and Gerry. 

And such outrage does not extend to the victims of ‘dungeon beast’ Josef Fritzl, whose homemade torture cellar you can now visit through the Sun’s virtual tour.