Crimewatch - Madeleine McCann

[minestrone]

Yes but their parents didn't have the contacts, photogenic wife and the sob story....

So they looked perfect?

Kind of proves my point,

[cailin maith]

I think he's got a point. How much of this thread is spent talking about how terrible it is for the kid, and how much is spent assigning blame and defending how we would never do anything like this?

I think people do it because they have first hand knowledge of being in a situation where they have a child and couldn't imagine ever making the decision to leave that child like they did. I would be staggered if anyone who has contributed to this thread and mentioned their own child did so simply to big themselves up for any reason - oh I'd never do that etc.

It's more that people couldn't possibly imagine ever making that decision. Ever.

This isn't about who has or hasn't got children (before you go jumping on me for that!!) it's simply about having first hand knowledge of being in that situation.

[RedSauce]

I didn't see the program, but from reading the papers it seemed to say that the current line of investigation is that this was a planned abduction. For it to be planned it must have meant that the perpetrator knew there would be unsupervised children there indicating it was not a "one-off" and they had left Maddie unsupervised before.

Peoples anger towards the McCanns is nearly always by parents and always in a way to make themselves look better.

[darmstadt]

Seems there's a fair few Doris Stokes's around, how do people know she was kidnapped? How do they know that a 'sicko' took her? For all anyone knows she could have wandered off, fallen in the harbour, fallen down a hole. There is, so far, no proof as to what happened to her, just a load of hot air. As for everyone having a go at the parents, well there are many parents who have lost children who have never been found yet they're not in the media every single day and I think that if they just toned it down a bit then there wouldn't be all this criticism of them (we're getting it in bloody Germany now!)

[MyUserName]

I didn't see the program, but from reading the papers it seemed to say that the current line of investigation is that this was a planned abduction.

I would be amazed if it was not. What are the chances of finding her alone by accident and happening to have the resources in place to vanish like this?

[russell]

So I guess some of you think Mick Philpott was just unlucky? Just a mistake could happen to anyone?

[MyUserName]

Seems there's a fair few Doris Stokes's around, how do people know she was kidnapped? How do they know that a 'sicko' took her? For all anyone knows she could have wandered off, fallen in the harbour, fallen down a hole.

I thought that the police had eliminated these as possibilities? Although I have not been following the story very closely so I might be wrong.

[Churchill]

So I guess some of you think Mick Philpott was just unlucky? Just a mistake could happen to anyone?

You're a crap troll.

[RedSauce]

Is 'Hairy' the reincarnation of Old Hack?

[mudskipper]

Madeleine McCann: time to forget? - Telegraph

"On the night their daughter was snatched, the McCanns and seven other British couples in their party, dined in the complex, leaving all their children – in adjacent apartments – alone."

So not just them then.