The father of Madeleine McCann has urged David Cameron to "do the right thing" and accept the Leveson blueprint for press regulation.
Lord Justice Leveson highlighted coverage of Madeleine's disappearance in Portugal in 2007 as an example of how stories were allowed to run "totally out of control".
Her parents, Gerry and Kate, were treated like a commodity as an "insatiable" hunt for headlines led to the sacrifice not only of the search for the truth but of their "dignity, privacy and well-being", he said.
Mr McCann said: "I would have liked to have seen a properly independent regulation of the press, whereas I think he has given the press another opportunity of self-regulation," he told the BBC Radio 4 Today.
"The other thing I find a little disappointing from the report is that we don't have a clear roadmap and timescales for implementation."
He said there should also be more accountability of individual reporters and photographers.
"Many of the newspapers almost certainly knew what they were writing was not correct, but the pound signs made them print it," he said.
"The Prime Minister and our other elected politicians have an opportunity now to do the right thing."
