According to the latest news a team of British detectives are continuing to fly around between the UK and Portugal. There was a recent extensive search of the scrubland next to the McCann's apartment including sewage system with micro-cameras attached to fibre optic cables, forensic archaeologists, sniffer dogs etc. They found .............. a man's sock. Imminent arrests were promised and the detective in charge, Andy Townsend, claimed they had significant new information. All of this involves a full time team of over a dozen British police officers and has so far cost over £6 million. There have been suggestions that the Brits would show the hapless local plods how to conduct a proper investigation. The main thrust of their expertise seems to be announcing to the world that they were seeking to question a gang of burglars who were 'suspiciously in the area at the time and used mobile phones to communicate with each other'. Apart from the fact that the McCanns, their friends & thousands of other people were in the area, talking to each other, it seems bizarre that these 'suspects' should be give such a warning, "98, 99, 100, coming ready or not!" My question is, 'Why has such a huge amount of money been spent, and is still being spent, on this one case when so many children go missing every year?'
What i find rather weird about this is... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Madeleine-daughters-disappearance-continuing-search/dp/0552165158 A book on her daughter's disappearance... talk about raking it in Theres a lot of bullshit about this story imo
You'd think they'd be spending time with their remaining children rather than attending book launches, flying around the world meeting the Pope etc, and attending courts to sue people and block the publication of any contrary publications. I read recently that only 13% of the millions collected has been spent ........... including the tenner our lass sent.
My opinion will never change unless she rocks up with an epic sob story on the Portuguese XFactor All the police tactics are designed in an attempt to make the McCanns drop their guard. Im confident they'll have taped confessions but they wont be admissible as evidence as they'll be from bugs/covert recording equipment. If the police had a genuine lead theres no way we'd know about it.
The McCann's are very good mates with Bliar & Brown, might tell you summat. Had it been any of our kids the police would have washed their hands of it now.
And sadly that's the inescapable truth Billy. If they were 'tattooed, track-suited benefit parents' there'd be a social services interest in the other two children. All this ****e about 'oh you're just jealous because they're BMW driving detached Tudor house owning doctors' is bollocks. They left 3 babies alone, night after night, while they went on the piss and turned down a babysitting service to save a few quid. This has so far cost £6 million and is tying up around 20 detectives. The girl won't be found alive by searching sewage systems and interviewing dopey tourists who 'saw a man with a child' in a holiday resort 7 years ago. Could those resources not be better used in the UK where we have things they could be cracking on with?
Aye absolutely. It pays to be well connected & have men in high places pulling the strings. I'd wager if the police gave Gerry McCann truth serum we'd get a quick result.
I agree there has been a load of bullshit and falsities printed and said about this case. However, my stance of regarding them as innocent of murder until proven otherwise remains..
It is a disgrace and you have to wonder how well connected these people must be. Contrived from the start. Poor girl and poor kids having those ****ers for parents.
I've gone beyond wondering about 'who dun it' ........ I just think the resources & money being dispensed is wrong. If the girl is alive and hidden she'll stay hidden and has probably forgotten her 'old' parents. If she's no longer alive the 'evidence' to convict will never be found after so many years. It's reached the point where I think it's become a weird point to prove by British politicians and police. Time to admit the whole thing is now pointless I'm afraid.
You are probably correct.. Just looking at the news from yesterday, in London alone, there was a woman beheaded in a garden in broad daylight, and a man shot dead by the police. All these cut backs for the force, and yet thousands are being spent, sending them over to Portugal.
Depends what they are considered innocent of Mr Raw, at the very least they could have been charged with Child Neglect: The current criminal offence of child neglect is set out in section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933. This provides that any person aged 16 or over who has responsibility for a child under that age commits an offence if he wilfully assaults, ill-treats, neglects, abandons or exposes that child (or causes or procures him to be so treated) in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to health. I wonder if the incident happened in the UK, would they have been charged.
This is the part that I cant get over despite the utter sadness that a beautiful little girl remains missing. I would not dream of leaving my kids alone at home, holiday wherever. They should have been charged over some form of neglect at the very least. Then you hear reports regarding the Portuguese police seeing their arse over the intervention of police from the UK?? Grow a pair man you idiots given the overiding issue that finding a little girl was a priority. Poor girl.
I've followed this case when it's been on the news. Without wishing to be too judgmental I cannot get my head around why they left such young children to their own devices. I mean, ffs, they are both doctors. You don't become a doctor by being a thick **** do you? How ****ing stupid can they have been? I have to say, the wife looks haggard & worn out to ****. He looks like he couldn't give a one & I'll bet you now he know's a hell of a lot more than he's saying.
I'm not sure what's going on tbh, it's all either a massive **** up, or as someone suggested it's a weird ploy. The Portuguese happily welcomed the initial use of sniffer dogs who found a 99%* chance of death in the apartment and the McCann's hire car. When they went after the McCanns they were hammered by the British until they dropped their interest. I now think their interest is minimal and they just want everyone to go away and let things get back to normal. Having the British turn up with more dogs, digging teams, forensic archaeologists, etc at the height of the summer holidays wasn't clever imo. *Just from memory.
You don't give up on a lost child just because you have others to look after Smug. I couldn't write-off a lost child. And as for them seeming to have some influence with decision-makers and being able to keep the searching going on for as long as possible, why the **** wouldnt they if they have the ability to do so. They seem to be damned for having the intelligence and wit to use every power at their disposal. That doesnt make it right or wrong. And RAW is right, until they're proven to have done something to the girl, they're innocent until proven guilty.
Listen chum. They left the wee bairns on their own, that makes them arsehole parents imo. Now I'm not saying that any of them's topped the wee lassie but at the very least they should have been done for neglect & had the others took into care. If that's the way they look after the kids, how do they treat their patients?
I don't have any problem with the McCanns doing whatever they see fit, they just seem very keen on libel cases and courts. I'm damning them only for leaving their tiny children alone if a strange flat in a foreign country while they went on the lash. I've never said they have any influence over authorities. I just believe that the government, and therefore police, were carried away just as the public were. The whole case was sensationalised to the extent where even David Cameron lost his focus and over reacted..... ....... now he doesn't want to pull the plug and be seen to 'fail'.
Hi Billy. I'm sure there's a lot of people who if they were absolutely honest with themselves, would be saying "there but for the grace of god" after what happened. We've all left our children in some circumstances that afterwards we may have thought not have been such a good idea in hindsight. I used to take my 2 boys on camping holidays as a single dad to France every summer. If the camp bar was in view of the tent I've left the lads fast asleep and popped over for a beer. Probably never occurred to me that someone could have climbed in the back of tent while I'm watching the front! It's easy to throw stones mate but I bet a lot of us have done something similar over the years.
