Reply to: Madeleine Mccann book

[minestrone]

While the comment may sound brutal to the lay person she is speaking from a GP's viewpoint. Reconstructive surgery is rare but horribly something too common and people in her area of work have to deal with every so often.

[PAH]

If I'd done in my kid and got away with it, I think I would keep my head down and keep out the limelight as much as possible. I certainly wouldn't be encouraging people to keep thinking about it.

The problem is most parents wouldn't have left their kids alone over the course of the holiday in such a way and then appeared to be so uncooperative in the aftermath. So right from the start we have a group of people (not just the McCanns) who are behaving odd to most parents/people. So many subsequent actions also seem odd, possibly including the one you mention, if they are more involved in the disappearance than they admit.

Maybe it's this odd behaviour base line (possibly due to them being doctors so wired/trained to think/behave differently) that has allowed most of the public to fall into two very distinct camps or drift somewhere between. Those that believe the abduction theory and offer sympathy to the McCanns at varying degrees, to those that think they are involved in a cover up of the death of Madeleine.

It appears this thread is going the same way as many threads on many forums (there's one on a motoring forum I frequent that has grown to around 250 pages in the course of 8 months ) with people speculating and falling somewhere between those two camps I mention. Maybe we should move on to more typical debates such as what to have for lunch and leave the McCann discussion to more appropriate forums before the McCann legal team descend on CUK.

[doodab]

Much easier to be judgemental on middle class parents. We expect that type of behaviour from working class don't we?

Whereas the truly posh get a nanny in when they are young and pack them off for months when they are older...

[MarillionFan]

They wanted both kids, and their pre-kids social life.

Sensible parents like you accept their priorities change and move on, selfish parents don't.
Understandable, don't we all, they were on holiday, I thought when the story first broke.
Then I read they'd been doing that every night for the week, and she'd had several rounds of IVF. No sympathy after that.

Much easier to be judgemental on middle class parents. We expect that type of behaviour from working class don't we?

[moorfield]

When I 'became' a single father in 2003, left with five children aged 10 down to 2 I never left any one of them on their own,

I still don't understand why these people did this.

They wanted both kids, and their pre-kids social life.

Sensible parents like you accept their priorities change and move on, selfish parents don't.

Understandable, don't we all, they were on holiday, I thought when the story first broke.

Then I read they'd been doing that every night for the week, and she'd had several rounds of IVF. No sympathy after that.

[MarillionFan]

As there have of Elvis....

Yeh. But he works down the road in my chip shop.

[stek]

You are incorrect about the cold trail.

There have been 100s of possible sightings.

As there have of Elvis....

[mudskipper]

Yes probably, though there are whole internet sites and forums built around the inconsistencies and curious facts (such as the shutters not having been jemmied or anyone having disturbed the lichen on the window sill, leading the McCanns to say the open window must have been a red herring from the abductor ) highlighted in the released official portugese files.

It's very intriguing seeing all the evidence and statements, which upon analysis makes it hard to then still believe the abduction theory as presented, yet the McCanns are still very much behaving as if that is the truth. Maybe it is maybe it isn't. A puzzle it appears only a select few will ever really know the answer to.

If I'd done in my kid and got away with it, I think I would keep my head down and keep out the limelight as much as possible. I certainly wouldn't be encouraging people to keep thinking about it.

[PAH]

Loads of conspiracy theorists looking for inconsistencies?

Yes probably, though there are whole internet sites and forums built around the inconsistencies and curious facts (such as the shutters not having been jemmied or anyone having disturbed the lichen on the window sill, leading the McCanns to say the open window must have been a red herring from the abductor ) highlighted in the released official portugese files.

It's very intriguing seeing all the evidence and statements, which upon analysis makes it hard to then still believe the abduction theory as presented, yet the McCanns are still very much behaving as if that is the truth. Maybe it is maybe it isn't. A puzzle it appears only a select few will ever really know the answer to.

[shaunbhoy]

You are incorrect about the cold trail.

There have been 100s of possible sightings. The Portuguese closed the case and as it's not a UK case the UK police have also not followed anything up. Everytime you see one of those sensationalist 'Madeline spotted' reports in the paper it's the Mccanns who follow it up, not the
police.

That's why they petitioned Cameron to review the case. The UK police are now looking at the evidence from Portugal to see what mistakes were made and make recommendations. But they are not following leads up as Mr Fitz so got on his high horse last month(I'd love to know the reply he got from the Prime Ministers office). So the Mccanns need money to follow the leads and keep the pressure on.

WMFS

The trail may have gone cold, but drowning men clutch at straws and all that. Until it has been unequivocally proven that she is dead they will continue to look. Doing that effectively takes cash,and the more of it you have the more searching you can do. Seems to me that is justification enough for the book.

[MarillionFan]

You are incorrect about the cold trail.

There have been 100s of possible sightings. The Portuguese closed the case and as it's not a UK case the UK police have also not followed anything up. Everytime you see one of those sensationalist 'Madeline spotted' reports in the paper it's the Mccanns who follow it up, not the
police.

That's why they petitioned Cameron to review the case. The UK police are now looking at the evidence from Portugal to see what mistakes were made and make recommendations. But they are not following leads up as Mr Fitz so got on his high horse last month(I'd love to know the reply he got from the Prime Ministers office). So the Mccanns need money to follow the leads and keep the pressure on.

[stek]

Why is it odd?

The Madeline fund has run out of money. She wrote the book to generate more cash so they could continue to pay private investigators to follow up leads that no-one else is doing.

Not odd at all.

It's odd cos the trail is stone dead, finding anything now is extremely unlikely.

When I 'became' a single father in 2003, left with five children aged 10 down to 2 I never left any one of them on their own, sheer fear gripped me at the thought of it, even now my youngest is 10 and with four older siblings to cope with, common-sense personified I won't leave her on her own.

I still don't understand why these people did this. Now I can feel it's their/her guilt, but writing a book is shocking to me, a bit like Ryan Giggs writing about his super-injuction horror, it's not right.

Something still very fishy about this whole thing....

[Churchill]

The book is mostly a publication of Kate's diary she has been keeping since the event, so not much effort needed to get the book together. Besides the find madeleine fund was close to running dry so it helps keep the search going.


I'm not sure who is really interested in purchasing it though as 99% of the 'story' has been well publicised since the event. Maybe those that find it fascinating to read about the lives of Jordan and all those other people in the public eye that otherwise have little to interest people will enjoy reading about how Kate couldn't have marital relations with Gerry.

Loads of conspiracy theorists looking for inconsistencies?

[MarillionFan]

Simple motivation for that, books that sell well make a lot of cash.

I agree writing a book or even helping a book to be written isn't something I'd do as her parent, it's very odd behaviour.

Why is it odd?

The Madeline fund has run out of money. She wrote the book to generate more cash so they could continue to pay private investigators to follow up leads that no-one else is doing.

Not odd at all.

[PAH]

Apologies for the way I reacted to your initial comment on the thread. I had thought that you were trolling and perpetuating Internet myth. I was wrong.

No need to apologise. At one point I was worried I had been suckered (and almost banned for) into perpetuating an internet myth!