Indeed possibly better to wait until a court has proved them guilty or innocent before splashing their faces across the media. I hate to be suspected of anything these days there is no longer any innocent until proven guilty these people will never live it down even if they aren’t guilty.
I agree Julie. So where did the media get the photo of the couple.
Those photos are no longer on the BBC news website!
Of course he was, because he is the fall guy…
The pictures of this nice looking couple are on almost every front page.
Extraordinary.
And now it’s being said that the situation could’ve been sorted almost immediately, but that ministers refused the help offered by the forces…and the Government delayed by a year or so to bring in new legislation and cutting edge technology.
I do think that the Minister for transport should resign.
I wonder if this Government could successfully organise a piss up in a brewery…
I am amazed pictures are being posted of people when they are only being questioned and no one has been charged.
There is also a photograph of a rather nice house belonging to the people too complete with an address. an open invitation to vandalism.
What if these people are not the culprits :shock:
I read that even when they were in custody a drone was sighted…seems peculiar.
These people live very close to Gatwick and they may be part of an anti-Gatwick group objecting to noise.
Their photos were shown on the Beeb website when the news first broke, were then taken down when I checked last evening - so I expect clearance has been given which allows them to show the photos.
Strange also that the drone story has occupied the front page of the BBC news website for the last three days, when a Tsunami killing 169 people (at the last report) in Indonesia gets just a small corner…?
The window fitter arrested over the Gatwick Airport drone chaos has been given alibis by his boss and ex-girlfriend.
Former soldier Paul Gait, 47, and his wife Elaine Kirk-Gait, 54, are being questioned after 1,000 flights were deliberately disrupted leaving 200,000 passengers in Christmas travel hell.
Gemma Allard, 40, and her dad run Allard Double Glazing in Crowborough, where Paul works. She said: “He was with me at work the whole time the drones were up. Paul comes to my house every morning - I’ve got a child with him. The morning of this going on, he was sitting in my front room having a cup of tea with me – and the rest of the day he was working. They need to let him out and catch the right people. Paul wouldn’t do this, no chance.”
And Gemma’s dad John said: “Paul comes in around 7.45am and I remember those days he worked late. I don’t think it can be him.” Mr Allard also told The Sun: “I really do think this is a load of b******s. I can account for Paul’s movements every day this week. When we watched it on Good Morning Britain on Thursday morning, Paul was saying how stupid he thought flying a drone over Gatwick was.”
Elaine’s ex-husband Ian Kirk, 50, turned up at her house yesterday to collect her dogs, a Jack Russell and a pug named Sid and Maddie.
Dad Francis, 72, told the Mirror: “He’s had some cracking helicopters and enjoyed flying them, but I think he ended up selling them. "He had them ages ago. It’ll be a year or two. I can’t believe Paul’s involved in this, I just can’t. The times this thing was flying in the daylight – when Paul was at work. I think they’re just dying to pin it on somebody. I can’t believe for one minute it’s true. It’s just mad.”
And Paul’s mum Margaret, 70, told the Sunday Mirror: “We’re just so shocked. It’s not the sort of thing Paul would do. He’s a nice person.”
Cast-iron credentials and rock-solid alibis - former soldier, working hard (employer can account for movements) to support glamourous wife and ex-girlfriend (employer’s daughter) with his baby (he visits her every day for tea!)
Wife has a Jack Russell and a pug named Sid and Maddie.
Obviously mistaken identity … 
They’ve been released without charge.
So they have:
A man and woman arrested in connection with drone sightings that grounded flights at Gatwick Airport have been released without charge.
The 47-year-old man and 54-year-old woman were arrested on Friday night on suspicion of “the criminal use of drones”.
Flights were suspended for more than 36 hours when the device was first spotted close to the runway on Wednesday night.
Sussex Police said the pair were no longer suspects.
Possibly, not eco-warriors, activists or runway protesters either, then …
Poor things, it’ll be a while before they can put this behind them…
Indeed, look at their haggard appearance after being held by police:
:shock:
I know the police have to interview people and that can be stressful but it should be done without plastering them on in the media. This isn’t first time they’ve had the wrong person and that person has suffered. All wrong and how if they went to court would they get an unbiased jury when we’ve all read about them ?
What a wonderful country this is.
Nobody seems to do any job properly.
I bet the police only arrested this couple because a nosy neighbour told them the husband was a drone enthusiast and they lived in the right part of town.
Because all the flights were cancelled. 
It looks like the BBC might be in the sh*t again - have they forgotten the Cliff Richard incident? I feel sorry for the couple and I hope nothing happens to them after this media balls-up.
I think it is so wrong that they have their faces, personal details and house plastered all over the papers, but they were only being questioned, which does not mean that they are guilty.
It could also have been they were helping the police track down someone, who would bother to help if they knew their faces would be in the media ? could be very dangerous.