Yes, the Beeb went to town on the story in a rather unBritish and over-the-top way. The correspondents to give the devils their due seemed to think so too, looking bored and irritated.
On the face of it there's plenty to criticise in the police response too.
I was London correpondent of a French daily in the early eighties, not for very long. The problem was the paper got a new Foreign Editor, a screaming carphound, with a lugubrious German-sounding woman assistant. They made my life a misery by turning down proper Le Monde-style stories about British social and political issues, with the odd joke, and demanding rubbish like interviews with Lady Diana Spencer. Which I refused to do in my turn.
The fellow passed for a 'former militant' too.
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