Madeleine McCann: Watching The Parents
MORE no news on the Madeleine McCann case.
It is now a week since the three-year-old girl was snatched from a Portugal holiday resort.
The story has been distressing to watch on our TV screens. What it must like for the parents of Madeleine only a few can know.
BLAME
But their misery is far from complete. With no news of Madeleine, and the Portuguese police having no need to indulge the British tabloids with speculation and theory, Madeleine’s parents are the central characters.
And today’s front-page news, as reported by the caring Mirror, is: “THEY KNOW LEAVING KIDS WAS WRONG.”
Does the Mirror mean to say that Madeleine’s parents, Kate and Gerry, now think they did the wrong thing in nipping out for a bite to eat and leaving the children in the apartment on what they thought was a secure resort?
Does the Mirror mean that the McCanns know that popping back regularly to look at their children and checking on their well being was less than perfect?
Does the Mirror mean that the McCanns realise they should not have left their children alone, just like it is wrong to leave a child in a hotel under the auspices of a baby monitoring service, to leave a child in the car while mum goes to pay for petrol, to talk to a neighbour over a garden fence while the children are indoors?
Of course this is not the Mirror’s view. Oh, no. This is Madeleine’s grandmother, Susan Healy, saying: “They know this was a mistake. But it wasn’t child neglect, it wasn’t not caring for your children.”
That she feels the need to say this is wrong. That the Mirror can lead with Madeleine’s grief-worn parents is pathetic and misguided. That the paper can talk of “people are asking why they didn’t make use of the crèche” at the resort or take the children out to dinner with them is wrong.
But the Mirror has news to write. And the police aren’t playing the game.
THEORIES
So the Mirror produces: “THE 6 THEORIES.”
Only six! Why this cautious approach? But it is all the Mirror has. And readers hear of the “PAEDOPHILE GANG”, the “LONE PAEDOPHILE”, the “JEALOUS MOTHER”, Madeleine wandering off and “DROWNED”, the “OPPORTUNIST PAEDOPHILE”, the “CHILDLESS COUPLE”.
But the Sun has more. It has 130 more. As the front-page headline screams: “MADDIE COPS HUNT 130 BRIT PAEDOS.”
The paper says “at least” 130 British paedophiles “might” have taken Madeleine McCann.
In “ALGARVE IS ‘HAVEN’ FOR PERVS”, readers learn that Portugal is a “magnet for sun-seeking perverts from Britain and the rest of Europe”.
Who knew that perverts get off on watching children at the beach?
Us And Them
But help is on its way. The Sun lists the British coppers who will go out there and see to it that justice is done. We, says the paper, are the only country with a sex offenders’ register.
All convicted perverts must inform the police of their desire to go abroad. At least 130 have. And the police are looking for them.
But – and whisper this – might it be that convicted sexual deviants don’t all tell the police what they plan to do? They are not monitored while overseas. And might it be that not all sexual predators are caught and make it to the list?
Among the policemans’ names is Detective Superintendent Graham Hill, attached to theChild Exploitation and Protection Centre. Hill is on the case. He has flown to Portugal.
Hill worked on the case of Milly Dowler. She was snatched from near Walton railway station, Surrey, in 2002. Her body was found six months later. Her killer or killers have never been caught.
Perhaps Hill’s experiences can help. Perhaps he’ll have more luck. Perhaps not.
Meanwhile, a family is distraught, and bearing up incredibly well under the strain and the merciless gaze of the newspapers…
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September 23rd, 2007 at 7:37 pm
I agree with you on that Star Madeliene needs to be found alive would be great but even if she is no longer alive she needs to be found.
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:36 pm
the friends of the Mccann’s that spilled this info….they said he knew something was not right…so why not take a few minutes and CHECK?
I believe they are grasping at straws
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Star
Really do you think that if Gerry had of thought at the time that the abductor was in the building with him he would have just gone back to the pub, come on grasping for something or what!
In hindsite Gerry has thought over the events and they both feel now that the abductor could have been in the building.
If he thought that at the time then he would have checked but he could see all of his children sleeping happily and like children often do get up and go to the toilet during the night Gerry felt this is what had happened, so he didnt feel it was a good idea to wake the children by going into the room.
Dont you think he is saying if only !
I think that they are saying if only we took them with us or if only we didnt go out, but they did just like lots of others before and after them.
I wouldnt leave my children but they felt that it was safe and because of this they went for dinner, if they had of felt they would not see one of the children again they would not of gone.
I have found it easy to sit in a group of friends and get through at least 4 or 5 bottles of wine between us and still not feel drunk.
While drinking chatting and eating myself and 5 friends drank 6 bottles of wine within afew hrs but we were happy not completly sober but aware of what we were doing.
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:27 pm
none of us were with the Mccanns that night. None of us know what happen to Madeleine…None of us know if Madeleine is alive or not…..None of us knows if Kate had something to do with Madeleine’s disappearance….We dont even know what kind of parents the Mccanns are…
We do know (right out of the Mccann’s mouth) that they left 3 small children alone to go out to DINNER, night after night…..some of us think this is wrong, and some of us have no problem with it…..
I believe i can safely say that we all HOPE and PRAY that Madeleine is alive and well and will be found, some of us feel this will happen and some of us feel it it too late for that.
Regardless if she is still here on earth or an angel up in heaven…she needs to be found.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Can we please lay this booze thing to rest, once and for all?
If you don’t drink at all, or just a tiny glass of sherry at Christmas, then all this may seem rather extravagant and reprehensible. However, if you are like many people, then … between 4 - 14 bottles between 9 normal drinkers over 7 hours … is NOT a big deal. 4 bottles between them is not even worth commenting about, and even 14 over the course of a day is still not a reason to suppose they were all reeling about, and not knowing what they were doing or saying. Sorry, you virtuous teetotallers, but that’s the truth. And in any case, just think back over history - religious or otherwise. Until comparatively recently (ie until the 20th century), water was unsafe to drink, so everyone - children and all - drank fermented drinks, if they could - booze, in other words. What would YOU have done? Risked cholera or typhoid, or other diseases? It was a way of securing vital fluids in a safe way, and if you’re now here, reading this, then your ancestors did not jeopardise your ultimate birth. They probably drank booze. So give them, and everyone else, a break.
Just because we now have safer water supplies is no reason to vilify people who happen to enjoy fermented grapes. They might just know how to enjoy themselves. Nor to suppose that you are morally better than they are, or that they don’t know what the reasons and consequences of understandable human needs are. You - my teetotal friends - are at a far greater risk of doing something dreadful after one sherry than the rest of us are after one bottle of wine - because you think you are great, and sober, and know better than anybody else.
I don’t care what Kate did at University 20 years ago.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:07 pm
And it seems the friends have a lot of things to say now…..
Like the bit about Gerry knowing whoever took Madeleine was in the room WITH him? And he didnt check? Well then they are neglectful AGAIN?
K….if the man was in there then how did one of the Mccann friends see him?
Seems like the Mccann friends make things up as they go along.
IMO the Mccanns have something to hide
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Its not odd star its called being not allowed to speak about it in other words the so called “privacy laws” although the Portuguese police managed to leak so much without being caught and having the treat of having to spend up to 2 years in prison.
But the McCann’s and friends have kept to what was said and not broken the silence of the privacy law.
The Portuguese police knew most of what the McCann’s are saying now was true at the time, but chose not to put the rumours right when they were told by the media.
The one line that made everyone believe this was a scam was Kate saying “they have taken her” but the truth was she said “Madeleine has gone she has gone” and that both Kate and Gerry were screaming and crying but when the media put forward that the McCann’s were uncaring no one came to their defence even though they could not speak because of the Privacy Law.
The one time Kate answered a question by accident about the bible she was being threatened with up to 2 years in prison for breaking the silence. They haven’t broke the silence but friends that have over heard them and witnesses’ to that night are now speaking for them, fair enough I think.
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Powder Monkey…
I agree…it just seem there are SO many inconsistencies to the untrained eye, one would hope the police have noticed and investigated them. Too much time has passed, by now all involved could have compared notes and funny how things come up that were NOT mentioned earlier. Just seems very odd to me!
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:20 pm
One thing I have to say to that is I have 6 children who I are happy and I believe I am a good parent, I am not perfect but no one is.
I used to enjoy a party, I used to be so drunk I could hardly walk, I also used to party over my studies, But that doesn’t make me a bad mother. That made me a Student !
Just because Kate used to party doesn’t make her a bad parent, yes she let down her children that night, but what proof other than what the media have gave you says she left the children night after night to go out before the holiday.
What are crèches for, I am sure my children would have rathered been in the crèche enjoying the activities that the crèche laid on for the children while on holiday, than sat sunbathing or watching me play tennis or even wondering around tourist attractions aimed at adults.
That’s why you choose a holiday resort with a crèche so your children enjoy their self’s as well as you, plus they show that they had family time as well.
It seems that when the evidence gets proved to be exaggerated and that the McCann’s can explain their way out of what is being said people, or some people in this forum always go back to ” they left the kids behind on their own!”
Yes they did this, and for that they were wrong and very guilty ,but if they could turn that time back and they thought that this could have happened they wouldn’t have left them for one minute.
They lost their first born child they are in pain and it seems like the Media wants to inflict more.
September 23rd, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Star, I too have wondered if the Portuguese police have sat down with the various timings of who was where and when, based on statements from the various people involved. A good tool for this is the Anacapa chart (named after the company that devised it). It was a paper system which, on a major enquiry, could cover the the walls of a large room. It has essentially a timeline for each person so that, at any given time in question, you could easily read and compare differing versions of events from the persons involved. Any contradiction, such as X saying I saw Y at the train station at 12.00 but Z says I saw Y at home 50 miles away at 12.10, would immediately be obvious.
I’d be very surprised if the police haven’t done this, especially as there plenty of computer software versions available to make life easier. It’s a basic investigative tool. Given the Portuguese police’s track record to date, maybe I shouldn’t be surprised.
As A Person says, maybe the police are pursuing the McCanns to try and cover up their mishandling & leaking like a seive. In which case, too late lads!
It may still be the case that justice for Madeleine involves prosecuting the parents.
September 23rd, 2007 at 1:44 pm
I suppose some evil person just made this up also?
Kate McCann was nicknamed ‘Hot Lips Healy’ during her carefree student days at Dundee University.
Kate Healy, as she was then, was ‘renowned for alcoholic binges and dance till you drop nocturnal activities’, according to her year book of 1992.
However friends say Kate, was one of the most popular students in the medical department and have spoke of their shock at the allegations made by the Portuguese police.
One former classmate, now a doctor, said: “Kate was great fun, always up for a laugh and a party. She was certainly more interested in going to the pub than she was in her studies.
September 23rd, 2007 at 1:04 pm
a person and amazed…
I HOPE Madeleine is still alive, not dead and tossed at sea or in a trash heap. I hope like everyone else on this page that she is found alive and well. Only thing is IMO she will probably never be found.
I’m not sure how either of you are so sure Kate and or Gerry are NOT involved. IMO the Mccanns are quilty of neglecting their children over their fun. We see it when they leave their children every night to go drinking with their friends and we see it when the 3 children are left in the creche for hours while Kate and Gerry are out having a good time.
Enough is enough…I guess i will just continue to check the news to one day find some accurate news about lil Madeleine. As i read in one artlcle, they MAY solve this case, BUT Madeleine may NEVER be found. And that is a shame, a innocent lil girl goes on Holiday and just disappears? If her parents would of been with her and not out drinking, she would still be with them.
Adios!!
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:33 am
Yes amazed your right star although keeps saying is in 2 minds has used the wooden spoon on a number of times to carry on stiring up the coldron for this witch hunt against the McCanns, although its been put forward so many times where the “Mistakes” have been made by the portugal police.
Really i dont care about the McCanns i care about Justice and Madeleine, I hate to see someone convicted of a crime because the police cannot solve it and want to get rid of the case, and if they charge the McCanns and they are innocent and maybe just maybe Madeleine is alive then they are letting her down because the case is shut and no more will people be looking for her.
So all of you that are trying to say the McCanns done this for Madelienes sake look at the evidence its all rubbish. If they are charged then thats it for the search for Madeliene. They believe se is dead then why look for her.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:23 am
Star have you ever been innocent of something but everyone else wants to believe your guilty?
If the answer to that is yes then your always inforce that you was innocent and as Kate is being blamed of accidentally killing her daughter she is stating she was never left alone to have got emotional and hurt Maddy.
I have just read how great the portuguese police are they are no longer looking for Maddy unless someone else gives them the ” i have seen a child resembling Madeliene” phone call, getting someone else to do the hard work for them they bundled the whole case and now refuse to believe the fact the McCanns may be innocent and that Madeliene may still be alive.
This is abit of an article by By Dai Davies Former Metropolitan Police Detective Superintendent wrote in the paper today.
Also, I can now see the McCanns in no way abandoned their kids, as some have suggested. I was amazed at how close their apartment was to the tapas restaurant. After just a few hours it was also possible to dispel some of the slurs that have been levelled at the McCanns. Gerry did not call Sky TV before he called the police, as the Portuguese media has claimed. Police now know this was done by Gerry’s sister, Philomena, in Glasgow. But they have allowed that rumour to fester.
I feel the same way as this man i believe that they have been allowing the Media to be Judge and Jury to this case before having any facts because they new the screwed up from day one and didnt have anything worthy to pin on the McCanns.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:13 am
It’s quite hard to be alone with one child when you have three to look after, and your husband is playing tennis.
What I think is odd, Star, is the way you totally ignore anything which might help vindicate the parents and just carry on blithely picking up anything, from anywhere, that might support your view - when even the Portuguese Police Spokesman has resigned in despair at the dodgy leaks; the British forensic lab has spoken out in despair at the interpretation of their results; and the man in charge of the case in Portugal is being investigated on a charge of beating a confession out of a woman in a similar case and, incredibly, is NOT suspended but actually in charge of this one.
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:08 am
Kate was never alone with Madeleine that afternoon. There were always other witnesses present.”
Isnt it odd that i keep reading this, stated by one of the Mccann friends.
In one article it actually said that Kate went dn for dinner at 8.30. Never did say in that article when Gerry went down. If this is true, and the kids were put to bed alittle after 6, then Kate was with them from the time they got back to the apartment until the time she left to go to dinner say at 8.00.
I just think it is odd people would want to inforce the fact that kate was NEVER alone with Madeleine.
September 23rd, 2007 at 5:57 am
Oh dear, here are some links which won’t encourage all you McCann bashers so very convinced of their guilt. I don’t think you can follow the in-article link to ‘Kate being renowned at University for alcoholic binges’ as I think they’ve pulled it - possibly because it’s libellous. In any case, show me a University student not renowned for alcoholic binges in this country … and she is 39 now.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/23/nmaddy123.xml
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=483363&in_page_id=1770
Incidentally, in another link I can’t find at the moment (think it’s yesterday’s Times) a psychologist attached to child protection said that in cases where a missing child has not been taken by a family member (estranged parent) - which make up the majority - women wanting a child take babies; stranger paedophiles usually take older children (rare); and traffickers will take a child of Madeleine’s age. This gives me some fresh hope, although I have always thought she died a long while ago - if only because the high media attention might have panicked a trafficker.
Interestingly, the people-finding organization being employed apparently have an office in Portugal. One wonders why.
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:24 am
They need to get each of the Mccanns and their friends to write what happen that day…get the records from the creche and the guy at that resturant and compare notes. Seems like the Mccanns and friends cant make up their mind about much that went on that day and night. Maybe it was all the wine they drank. I wonder what condition Kate and Gerry were in?
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Star, just to muddy the waters even further, so we have the McCann’s friends saying that Madeleine had tea at the creche & was picked up at 18.00 by her parents. However, Miguel Matias says all the McCann family ate at his restaurant, where he videod them, and he says they left his restaurant at 18.00. The Paraiso restaurant that Mr. Matias owns is outside the Ocean Club complex, and some distance away. Can’t be in 2 places at once can they, so who is mistaken or fibbing?
Until this came to light, I was thinking that the last time anyone other than the McCanns & friends had seen Madeleine alive was 14.29 (or 13.29 on the camera’s timing device allegedly), when she was photographed at the pool.
I agree with you, 18.30 seems an early bed time for a four year old on holiday. We used to let my daughter just tire herself out and then put her to bed. Unless Kate McCann had reason to put Madeleine to bed early - was she misbehaving & mother couldn’t cope?
Other news is that, although he will remaing an aguido to avoid compromising other lines of enquiry, Robert Murat is expected to be cleared by the police. Why would they keep him as aguido, I wonder? Could only be what he might say if not gagged by the secrecy law, surely.
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:36 pm
restaurant owner who is one of the last people to have seen Madeleine McCann yesterday told how she danced with her father on the seafront just hours before she vanished.
Miguel Matias, who has never spoken before, said the McCanns seemed a perfectly normal family and there was nothing to hint at the tragedy to come.
Kate and Gerry McCann, the children and their holiday friends spent an hour at restaurant Paraiso on the beach of Praia da Luz, where the youngsters ate their dinner.
** Ok this man said the Mccann children ate WITH their parents on the night Madeleine disappeared. She danced with Gerry. He has this on video and has contacted the police with this info.
Friends said the family had enjoyed a leisurely day, rising at 9.15am for breakfast.
The youngsters were put in the resort’s kids club until their parents collected them at 12.30pm for lunch at the apartment.
In the afternoon, the McCanns played tennis while Madeleine went back to the creche after being photographed at the pool.
“There are records for that, written records and witnesses,” said a friend.
“Madeleine was there while Kate and Gerry played tennis with the tennis professional and other witnesses.
“Madeleine had high tea at 5.30pm with staff at the kids club. She was picked up shortly before 6pm by Kate and Gerry. After that, Kate and Gerry went home, got the kids ready for bed and went out for dinner.”
**according to the Mccanns FRIENDS….Madeleine had high tea at 5.30 with STAFF at the kids club. She got picked up before 6 pm and was put to bed (at 6.30? a bit early)
Too many holes in this story…and why were these children in the creche ALL the time, I thought it was a FAMILY Holiday?
I also read that Kate joined dinner at 8.30, i thought that Kate and Gerry went to join their friends for drinks. If that is the case, the kids were put to bed at like 6.30 and what did Kate do until she went to dinner at 8.30?
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Something here is not right…
The youngsters were put in the resort’s kids club until their parents collected them at 12.30pm for lunch at the apartment.
In the afternoon, the McCanns played tennis while Madeleine went back to the creche after being photographed at the pool.
“There are records for that, written records and witnesses,” said a friend.
“Madeleine was there while Kate and Gerry played tennis with the tennis professional and other witnesses.
“Madeleine had high tea at 5.30pm with staff at the kids club. She was picked up shortly before 6pm by Kate and Gerry. After that, Kate and Gerry went home, got the kids ready for bed and went out for dinner.”
First this was a FAMILY Holiday? Seems the kids were at that creche place ALOT.
This account says that Madeleine had high tea at 5.30pm with staff at the kids club. Then went home with Kate and Gerry and was put to bed (at 6.00?) But Kate didnt go to dinner until 8.30?
Then we have this:
restaurant owner who is one of the last people to have seen Madeleine McCann yesterday told how she danced with her father on the seafront just hours before she vanished.
Miguel Matias, who has never spoken before, said the McCanns seemed a perfectly normal family and there was nothing to hint at the tragedy to come.
Kate and Gerry McCann, the children and their holiday friends spent an hour at restaurant Paraiso on the beach of Praia da Luz, where the youngsters ate their dinner.
**He says he has video of this and has turned it over to police.
Now did she eat at the creche or with her parents that last night?
See…way too may holes in his story
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Their account filled the gap between 2.29pm - when Madeleine was pictured by a swimming pool with her father - and 8.30pm, when Kate McCann joined friends for dinner at the holiday complex.
** this is the FRIENDS account…..i thought Gerry and Kate went to dinner. According to this…Kate joined them at 8.30?
Also i still wonder what kind of father would think something was odd about the room and NOT investigate. No he went back to his drinking. NOW his is sure the person that took her was in the bedroom or bathroom?
NOW they think she was TAKEN TO ORDER….I guess the Mccanns think if one thing dont work, let’s move on to the next. I hate to say but they dont look like good responsible parents to me.
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:48 pm
I read about a man that has video of Madeleine having an early dinner with her parents and others…..and dancing with her dad.
Kate said they posted the last pic of Madeleine from earlier that day…BUT the clock or date is messed up on her camera…..UNBELIEVABLE!!
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:22 pm
More speculation today, ostensibly from ‘reliable’ sources about how Madeleine may not have been seen all afternoon. Part of it says that Kate claims she was at the pool all afternoon with all the children, while Gerry played tennis with the other men. Well. If it’s true, then Gerry at any rate is guilty of gross irresponsibility - would you want to be left on your own at a pool with a 3-year old, and a pair of two year-olds? I had two boys 14 months apart and I can tell you that time on the beach with them at that age was simply a nightmare on my own. Turn your back for a couple of seconds to talk to one of them, and the other is 6ft up a crumbling cliff or running into the waves….. this’ll probably turn out not to be true at all, like so much other ‘evidence’ from ‘reliable’ sources is, but it did make me blink.
Other reports, of course, say the children were in the creche all afternoon, with witnesses to prove it, and that Kate was on her own at the pool. It really does seem inordinately difficult to establish exactly what happened - which I find strange in a British holiday village in a small place. I can quite understand waiters in a tapas bar not being entirely sure who was where and when, but the creche must have kept records.
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:44 am
It’s almost as “ludicrous” to suggest we only come here to do the simple maths question in the Spam Protection, and are stimulated as a result.
It’s fairly obvious to me he’s merely attempting to make the assersion that the illusionary “abductor” exists, and therefore divert attention from himself. How very childlike. In the same token that covering one’s eyes and claiming to be invisible Gerry Sir, is not tangible science. If a little girls life wasn’t the nucleus of this issue I would laugh aloud. Deservedly.
The more they talk, the better it gets. Keep talking Gerry it’s your downfall
Allegedly
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:21 am
Powder Monkey…..thanx for the info…It is so hard to try to figure this out.
And i still dont know what kind of a father Gerry is that he knew something was up and didnt bother to check it out…I guess drinking with his friends was more important.
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:26 am
Well i have a problem with everything that the mccann friends have to say…..first they cant agree on who checked the kids and when, did they go in or just listen at the door? then they are SURE it was Murat, then they saw a man with a child in a blanket, then they say it’s the rotting trash that made the dogs go crazy, NOW they say that Gerry is sure the person that took Madeleine was in the apartment when he checked the kids? What kind of father is he that he went back to drinking INSTEAD of checking it out?
They sure seem to pass the blame to everyone except the Mccanns who left the children in the first place….
September 21st, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Alice they couldnt speak out about what happened because they were not allowed to they still havnt as if you read it it is a friend of theres speaking saying what gerry had told the police as from the beginning the police have not told the whole story maybe due to langauge problems which i very much doubt.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:31 pm
I dont want to say too much here - because it is easy to infiltrate and that, at this stage in this investigation, is not good. However does anyone else feel that one should look “outside of the box” I am of the opinon that the events of the past week have been set up to trap a rat..And I really do think that the rat is sniffing the cheese and getting closer to no being able to resist the aroma. My gut feeling is that within the week the whole picture will emerge and this sorry saga will at last be put to bed. I really do not think that there will be many surprises, but I feel sorry in my heart that it now appears to be a fore gone conclusion that Madeleine will not be found alive. If she were still alive I am sure that the lure of the huge monetary gain would have instigated her being returned through a third party
September 21st, 2007 at 11:14 pm
I could not believe what I read in the news today about Gerry McCann “feeling certain that Madeleine’s abductor was in the room behind the door when he checked on the kids at 9pm” Nearly 5 months down the line and “thinking back” he is now almost certain that the abductor may have been in the apartment when he checked the kids - The report said he “thought it strange” that the door was open, when it should have been closed - but did he put all the lights on and check out his uncertainty?? NONE OF IT - he buggered off back to the bar. Talk about clutching at straws….. I have never quite understood why there have been so many uncertain reports of what actually happened on the night Madeleine went missing - but now I understand why the police had very little to go on - the conflicting accounts of what actually happened on that night is astounding - Surely to goodness Gerry McCann would not “suddenly” remember that he “thought it strange” that the door was open - He should have told all on the night and then maybe the dna of the abductor (if one exists) would have been on the door which Gerry thinks he hid behind