Christ. I agree with Trev on all his points. The bottom line is there are lots of ways to make a protest. Withholding potentially valuable information is not one of them.
I thought it a point of public knowledge that they gave sedatives to their kids to make them sleep (probs so they can get pissed with no distractions). I mean who gives their kids sedatives for personal gain?
It might not have been the best way to do it but I imagine emotions were running pretty high at the time.
I think there is no evidence and it was based on conjecture and unproven reports which came from who knows where. If I'm wrong, then fair enough I must have missed something, but this is what I'm talking about - people with rumours and half the facts jumping to conclusions because they 'look shifty' in their eyes, or look like they don't show remorse, or some other non-factual piece of 'evidence'.
Agree with you in general (excuse the pun) that what actually happened to Madeline is unknown and open to conjecture. Also accept that the McCann’s are not suspects either to the Portuguese or the English Police. I could put forward answers to your questions quite easily but it would be pure guesswork on my part. Only those directly involved in Madeline’s abduction or death know what happened and everyone else is guessing. If, however, we are spending this sum on this child’s disappearance then we should be doing the same for every other child who has disappeared and we are not. I have my views on the McCann’s and on what happened to Madeline but I will never know if I’m right or wrong. What I do know is that I would have moved heaven and earth if something had ever happened to my kids and would not have spat my dummy out and refused to answer questions from the Police as a “protest” to being treated as a suspect especially if I had neglected my kids by leaving them to go to the Tapas Bar as the McCann’s did. It would seem to me the reason for continuing the investigation is political as I struggle to believe that any leads still exist which haven’t been exhausted in the 10 years since Madeline disappeared and politics should play no part in this.
I think there is some element of it being a political decision to continue but then credit to the McCann's in doing a good job in keeping public interest in their case and doing what they can for their daughter. Shouldn't we be demanding, though, that all the other cases are investigated further, rather than wanting this one to be shut down? It is about the little girl and not punishing the parents' irresponsibility, remember.
Except the Charity Missing People claims 140,000 children a year go missing although most are found/return within 24 hours. Sounds mercenary but where is the money going to come from? The Police can’t cope now never mind with that additional work placed upon them. And yes money shouldn’t be the determining factor but in the real world unfortunately it is
Many years ago, there was a report released on wikileaks which I downloaded and read - the conclusion to that report was that the McCanns were the ones. Pity that laptop I had the download on has long since been destroyed. From everything I have read, whether they are innocent or not, they won't answer certain questions about that evening which if it was me and my children and I was truly innocent then I would answer any question they asked me truthfully.
I think they should be asked to contribute - I mean they must have made so much money out of selling those Oven Chips.
There are many strange elements to this whole saga but I think this latest 'angle' of suggesting that money is being wasted in the continued search for the child is in very poor taste. If it was your child missing, you'd spend the earth finding the answers.
It’s not a question of money being wasted, it’s a question of why aren’t we doing this for every missing child? I would spend the earth for my children but i wouldn’t expect everyone else to pay.
You are right it is in poor taste - the fact that next to nothing is spent on the other thousands of children who are currently missing in the UK is the poor taste. Why is this one child so special to have received over £11M of public? Your last sententce - that is indeed true, however they themselves refuse to answer certain questions - WHY?
The tough thing is, not many of the other missing children are missing because their parents went on the piss and left them on their own in a foreign country. Yet it is Gerry and Kate who get all the attention, funding and support. Seems a bit unfair to me.
Unfortunately I think this situation has been lost in media interest. The McCanns have vilified by it, and we seem to be now wasting money due to what I can only assume is bad press associated with giving up. The 11m should not be spent on a lost cause. In all likelihood you will never find her and she is probably dead. Regardless what you think of the McCanns and their behaviour or otherwise, its irrelevant. Someone somewhere has to make the difficult call on how public money is spent. There are far better things to spend 11m than the an 11 yr old case with very little evidence to suggest a positive outcome is likely. Honestly as a father of a young daughter I sympathise with them despite the apparent poor parenting presented in the media. However as a contributor to public money I can think of better things than spending more money on this. Like the fecking potholes risking lives all over the country at present and bollocksing everyones suspensions
Better hope she's dead and was dead really soon after being taken. That's definitely not a given and the alternative is... far worse.
