A TONGHAM man who doubts the authenticity of the national grieving over the death of the two murdered Soham girls, has aired his views in the national media this week.
Dr Robin Harman had a 250-word letter expressing his beliefs published in Monday's Daily Telegraph.
As a result, he was contacted by BBC Radio Four and was interviewed on its PM news programme the same afternoon.
In his letter, Dr Harman wrote: "I feel greatly concerned at the overt way in which people around the country have been forced to express "grief" at the death of the two Soham girls.
"No-one outside the close family circles can express grief, because no one else personally knew the girls and has experienced any loss.
"We seem to have gone from a nation with a stiff upper lip to one in which the failure to exhibit these feelings that others purport to feel attracts nothing but criticism. Much of this false grieving is prompted by the media demanding that we should externalise feelings that any rational person could not have."
Dr Harman, whose doctorate is a Ph.D., declined to comment further, saying: "I feel it's inappropriate to add to my comments because it's not a local matter."
He also declined to appear in a BBC television programme.