There is filling the void and there is doing what HCW has done from the off, which is gone out of his way to give interviews and statements to sources that he knows are going to milk and rinse them for every last bit of sensation, not to mention misinterpretation, they can manufacture out of them for clicks. That's on him, not me. And it's why he's had to spend so much time over the years back-tracking and trying to correct tabloid claims.
And no one is suggesting that HCW should say nothing, just that a more guarded, measured and less people-pleasing approach would have stood him in so much better stead and made him less of the target for scrutiny/criticism that he's become over the 3 years since he made his claim. All his own doing.
I'll continue to criticise HCW where I see fit. If you have an issue with that, fine, but HCW is as much the subject of this thread as CB is since HCW is the one accusing him of abducting and murdering MM. With, to date, nothing to back up that accusation.