Madeleine McCann- Did her mother kill her?

[random]

I actually have nightmares about wee Jamie Bulger and what happened to him. He must have been so afraid, I can't even think about it and I never even knew him.

Maddie's, of course, is still a very open case and when they do find out what happened (IF they do), if it is as grave as we fear i'm sure i'll feel the same way about her as will a lot of the nation, and especially those with children of their own. No child deserves this.

So all I can say is, if it affects us so much when it is a child we never knew, how the vast majority of us would react if it were our own? I couldn't even imagine loosing my wee lad and I think i'd struggle with just day to day living never mind anything else. But again that is just how I feel.

But take for instance Jessica and Holly, their parents were distraught and they were never in the public eye like the McCanns, although their girls were being looked for all over the country, just like Maddie.....

[Kazz]

All very confusing isn;t it.
Arguido (male) Arguida (female) status is when someone becomes more than a witness but not charged or arrested (just an inbetween level we dont have here)
Police can designate it or a witness can ask for it to be invoked to give them right to remain silent under questioning and a lawyer.
Under Arguida The Mccanns will not be able to change residence, leave the country and will have to report to police station every 5 days with all documents.
It just gives the Police at this time more control. (As she was not taken direct to court after questioning)

It gives them (police) the right to ask certain questions.

All very confusing isn't it.

But I wonder why (if it is the truth) the police found it necessary after all this time to do a forensic check on the hire car.

For what reason have they decided now is the time to "check" the car, have they checked it previously?

But what? have they new information or has the evidence been planted? does make you think doesn't it - And then where does that lead you too? confusion.

Karen


Karen

[EmmaG]

If it was me (and I don't even have children) I certainly would have broken down more than once on camera. To me her mother seems "worried" but not "upset" (if that makes sense??)

[sarahd]

I've always thought the parents had something to do with it from the beginning.

The way they made out they could see the apartment from the restaurant and when in actual fact when the map of the resort was printed. The restaurant was actually two streets away from the apartment NOT opposite as people were led to believe.

If she was abducted then why only take her when there were 2 year old twins there also. There was also the fact the apartment was left open. Why would the parents do that also knowing the children could get out of bed and possbily open the door and wander off?

All these questions beg answers but probably we will never know.

I do think she did it though as awful as that thought may be

sarah
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[Soupie]

I find the way people trial by internet quite distressing

The police have bodged this investigation from start to finish. I don't think we can possible speculate on what has happened based on what is in the press really as the stories are contradictory. I just hope Maddie didn't suffer at all if she is not alive and isn't suffering now if she is

[yola]

I don't think we're 'trialing' Soupie, merely speculating. It's no more than the kind of discussion you would have whilst watching the news with friends or family - talking through the options as one sees it from one's own perspective and making personal observations based on these interpretations.

[EmmaG]

Both parents have now been named as suspects

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6983604.stm

[Emm]

I have thought from the beginning that the parents may have been involved. I was watching an expert talking yesterday and he said in over 90% of cases in the UK where a child is killed its by a parent or some-one who knows the child. So if this had happened in the UK then they would have been taken in as first suspects and thoroughly interviewed.


At the end of the day though none of us know what happened - which is why its annoying me that the family members are saying its a disgrace that the parents are suspects - how do they truly know - they weren't there! The victim here is a small child that should have been protected by adults. Its so sad

[dinahsmum]

A hellish situation, whatever the truth eh? If the truth is ever uncovered of course.
My only comments all through have been that our media is just loving the case .... it filled the papers and broadcasts nicely during the summer silly season and in the time before the Diana anniversary ... and hey, Diana isn't a media pull any more, the memorial service was a bit of a damp squibb - back to Maddie then
and
If the parents had been Wayne and Waynetta Slob, leaving their kids home alone to go down the British Bulldog pub in Benidorm, instead of Dr and Dr McCann, they would have got so much stick ....
I think I read a news piece long ago, at the start of the affair, where someone else staying in the apartment block had previously found Maddie wandering at night/evening - ie before the night she went missing . May or may not be true. Who knows?

[borderdawn]

Cadaver detection dogs have marked the same spot inside the apartment as being where a dead body lay.