Gromit:
"...the only information in the public domain is via the media."
That is exactly my point, vis-a-vis, "information" does not equal "evidence", does not equal guilt or innocence.
I, too, have access to television, internet, newspapers, radio, and am well aware of the millions of words spoken, written, broadcast, transmitted etc etc. But none of this hearsay, no matter how credible or cogent, can be deemed as anything but that. How often have you heard of people being convicted in Court on the strength of a newspaper report or a news bulletin?
You seem to choose to be in denial over the difference between hearsay and evidence, your head is firmly stuck in the sand and your argument is merely centred around all these media links you love to attach to your posts.
Wake up and smell the coffee. How would you like to be convicted on the strength of what the Guardian says?