Kate McCann

[FiveTimes]

I'm sorry, but that comment is just fecking wrong - they're trying to keep the press attention with the hope it helps them get their little girl back. A media whore craves attention to satisfy their own ego and from vanity. The McAnns to help get their daughter back. There is a world of difference SP, though just by making that kind of comment I doubt an insensitive ***** like yourself would ever understand that.

If they're convicted then pillory them, not before.

I'm agree they have used the press very well to keep the focus on the little girl, but eventually it will turn, and lasdt week the father asked for the press to stop with all the publicity... was that because the heat was coming on them ? Were they feeling the pressure ?
The helped to create the media circus and they didn't like it when the boot was on the other foot.

[Sockpuppet]

Well, why bother with a trial if she's been questioned for 11 hours and is therefore guilty? I reckon I might be able to think of people who hae been questioned at length who haven't been guilty.

If she really was just a witness do you think they may have stopped the questioning and started the next day. I cant think of many reasons they would continue past midnight under normal "your just a witness" conditions.

[Sockpuppet]

The helped to create the media circus and they didn't like it when the boot was on the other foot.

You said what I was trying to say just better.

Its like Posh and Becks that phone the tabloids to tell them where they are going to be shopping but get miffed at snappers outside their house all day.

Gotta take the rough with the smooth.

[Old Greg]

If she really was just a witness do you think they may have stopped the questioning and started the next day. I cant think of many reasons they would continue past midnight under normal "your just a witness" conditions.

I agree that she's more than a witness. She's a suspect and assuming some competence in the local police, there is some evidence against her. But there's a distinction between being a suspect and being guilty, and your last post missed that distinction.

[snaw]

Supportive of other peoples views I see.

Well, let's just say they're innocent for now until proven otherwise, and look at your comment. You're daughter has just been abducted, quite possibly dead, quite possibly a horrible death. You're doing all you can to keep the case in the spotlight in the forlorn hope of getting her back.

Or there is the SP view, your daughter has just been kidnapped but look on the bright side - you're famous, everyone knows who you are and all these paps are interested in your every move, plus you get to meet the pope. Result.

Everyone is entitled to their view SP, but when they're as obnoxious as your's expect to get slammed for airing them.

[daviejones]

assuming some competence in the local police, .

That may be assuming a bit too much!!!!!

[Sockpuppet]

I agree that she's more than a witness. She's a suspect and assuming some competence in the local police, there is some evidence against her. But there's a distinction between being a suspect and being guilty, and your last post missed that distinction.

OK, good point. I think there is more to her than just a suspect but that is a personal view etc.

[Old Greg]

OK, good point. I think there is more to her than just a suspect but that is a personal view etc.

More than a suspect? That's what the trial process is for.

[NotAllThere]

Since the beginning, having a nasty suspicous mind, I've wondered whether the parents were covering up some negligence on their part. I understand that the vast majority of child murders are committed by close relatives. So, the probability is that one of other of the parents did it. Of course, that doesn't mean they did do it.

Unless the body gets found, I imagine it would be pretty difficult to establish the truth.

[TheFaQQer]

Again. You don't think they did it. I do.

I think there is a difference between keeping your daughter in the media spot light and flying off to visit people like the pope.

No - that's not what I said, at all. Indeed, I have always believed that no-one should have been ruled out early in the investigation (the police said that they had "never" been a suspect, which is plain wrong).

However, assuming innocent until proven guilty, then what the family did was try to keep a high public profile of their daughter, not themselves. This is crucial in trying to find someone who has been abducted - you need to keep it in the public eye. It is also crucial in distinguishing between someone trying to raise the profile of a missing loved one, and being a media whore.

asdt week the father asked for the press to stop with all the publicity

Not quite - what he asked for was an end to unhelpful, speculative journalism. Headlines (and indeed forum topics) entitled "Madeleine Dead" or "Madeleine Found" are morally and factually wrong - it must be heartbreaking for those close to the family that read "Madeleine Dead" headlines before finding on page 5 of the Express that "Jose Nobody, a volunteer helper with the street cleaners of Portugal, admitted today that he thought that Madeleine was dead".