The brother of Arnis Zalkalns, the prime suspect in the case of missing schoolgirl Alice Gross, says his brother has been portrayed unfairly.
Janis Daksa said he had been made to look like a "monster, a villain". People were not interested in whether he was a "good man", he said.
M Zalkalns, jailed for his wife's murder in 1998, is wanted after Alice, 14, went missing on 28 August.
Met Police detectives are now in the Latvian capital Riga.
Alice was last seen by the Grand Union Canal in west London.
Arnis Zalkalns, 41, was convicted of murder taking his wife, Rudite, to a forest and attacking her with a steel pole and eight-inch knife.
He served seven years in jail for the killing, before moving to the UK in 2007
His brother told the BBC: "What I know and what I have read, differ. No-one is interested if he is a good man.
"Everyone is looking for a sensation, where he is shown as a monster, a villain. That's what they want."
On Thursday detectives will stage a reconstruction of Alice's disappearance - four weeks after she disappeared.
Although the investigation team has followed 729 lines of inquiry, spoken to 1,067 people and had more than 1,000 calls, there have been no confirmed sightings of the teenager.
The inquiry into Alice's disappearance focused on Mr Zalkalns after he went missing on 3 September without a passport, from Ealing, west London.
The labourer, who works at a building site in Isleworth, was seen on CCTV riding a mountain bike along the canal path 15 minutes after Alice walked the same way.
Latvian court documents about his murder case, which BBC correspondent Damien McGuinness has seen, revealed a psychologist assessed Mr Zalkalns as mentally stable and said he knew exactly what he was doing when he murdered his wife and buried her in a shallow grave.
Officers are continuing to search a stretch of the River Brent, where Alice's rucksack was found, and its banks near Ealing Hospital, as part of its investigation.
The hunt for Alice, from Hanwell, west London, is the largest Metropolitan Police search operation since the 7/7 terrorist bombings in 2005, with 600 officers from eight forces involved.
Scotland Yard said its Specialist Crime Review Group was carrying out an independent review into the force's investigation into Alice's disappearance and the missing person investigation into Arnis Zalkalns to "ensure that any learning is identified".
Detectives have said the suspect was also arrested on suspicion of indecently assaulting a 14-year-old girl in 2009, but no further action was taken.
A reward of up to £20,000 is being offered for anyone who has information that leads detectives to find Alice.
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