Madeleine McCann: Gerry On The Telly And It Could Be U
“MADELEINE: It’s not too late says mum.”
The front page of the Express contains a “Dramatic Plea”.
But it’s not dramatic so much as it is desperate. “It’s not too late, please give her back,” says Kate McCann.
As ever the Express tells readers that Mrs McCann is a GP. Gerry McCann, we learn is a “consultant cardiologist”.
Says she: “Every day is hard. Every day is very difficult… The important thing is getting Madeleine back and we hope that what we are doing increases the chance of that.”
What’s The Story?
Indeed, that is the important thing. It is the only thing. But the press want more.
Says Gerry McCann: “We have a mix of very positive days, when we have done big things and achieved things or big events with the campaign, but we are aware these things are secondary.”
He’s right. Of course he is. But the press have been pointing fingers at the police, gawping at “creepy” men, listening to anyone with a paedophile story, looking for bodies and signs. They have not been on the trail of Madeleine. They follow the McCanns around, first Spain, then Germany, then the UK, the Vatican and Morocco. They are watching the parents. The parents are the story. And we are invited to look on like voyeurs.
We can wear braclets. Find Madeleine is this year’s Make Poverty History campaign.
Infotainment
The Sun says Gerry McCann is to appear at the Edinburgh TV Festival. No, not because he’s given us hours of great telly. Although he is taking the slot once occupied by Simon Cowell and Michael Barrymore. Gerry will be “quizzed” by Newsnight presenter Kirsty Walk on the media campaign to find Madeleine McCann.
Peter Barron, organiser of the event, rated the Find Madeleine campaign a “new and moving phenomenon”. What was that about good telly?
But it’s scaring the children. The Star says an appeal to find Madeleine is being screened before cinema showings of U-rated Shrek The Third.
Children with faces full of popcorn and crisps hear that Madeleine was “snatched” from her bed. “Madeleine’s parents are devastated, but they haven’t given up hope.”
A mum says it’s “unfair” to show this to children. “It makes them fear that they too could be abducted.”
It spreads the fear. It creates anxiety. And it shows no sign whatsoever of finding Madeleine nor the person or persons who might have taken her…
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September 12th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Axel, have you ever thought of the word ‘Scam’ in connection to this case? Surely, it can’t be.
After reading what Malou said about the McCanns contacting Sky news before the police I am trying to get my head around that one.
Given that there is another little girl (the O’Briens) who is exactly the same age as Madeleine (and is said to have been born coincidentally on the same day as Madeleine also by IVF), could she have been the one on the camera who was with Gerry and O’Brien that day in the restaurant just prior to when Madeleine disappeared, and it was not Madeleine after all who was seen at 6.30 alive and well?
Perhaps Madeleine was not even around then.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Hello Malou
Why on earth would anybody call Sky News before calling for assistance from the police?
Most people would never think that way. No wonder the Portuguese police are mystified by these people. I have seen that the police are now trying to get hold of Kate’s diary. Perhaps wanting to check times and places they said they went? Or something more sinister, though can’t believe she would write down anything if incriminating.
The news are also reporting ’substantial amounts’ of Madeleine’s hair found in boot of car, and they would be able to tell if from dead person because hair leaves that information.
If that is the case, then I can’t see how the McCanns will be able to explain that very easily.
I think the McCanns would have no difficulty to get help from close friends and family members, so many of them refuse to say they are not good parents for leaving their kids alone while they went out. This is not fooling a lot of people in UK as they have contacted Social Services to go and intervene with this family, many of the comments about them they have written are not printable.
How about if Madeleine had died and her body was put at the bottom of a freezer, as horrible as it sounds and then covered over with a board and on top the Birds Eye, etc. It might not have actually been the McCanns themselves who got rid of the body, they might have got help from some person close to them who was not being watched.
The hair, if it turns out to be from a corpse is a big problem to be explained away, that is if they will ever return to do the explaining as they have been contacting a lawyer that helps people fight extradition.
So much for giving the help and assistance the police ask! They are still insisting they are being framed by the Portuguese police, yet it sounds like there are quite a number of police from UK involved in this as well. Surely, they could not also be accused of framing the McCanns, and why would they?
The cadaver dogs were smelling the death scent on personal belongings of the McCanns and went wild when they got in the boot of the car they had hired.
Not looking good for the McCanns so far, but if they are truly convinced their daughter is still alive and they are innocent why don’t they ask the people who are in control of the Fund to release money to hire private detectives to go look for her. If they manage to find her then that surely will be their best defence as it will vindicate them. So why is the money still sitting there in the Fund when time is of the essence, especially for Madeleine if she is alive as the McCanns keep insisting?
September 12th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
appalled mother
I bet you were one of the many who devried robert murat as being guilty because of his eye,
how did the mccanns know exactly to the tiniest detail of what would happen next, tell skynews and then say that the portugese police were going to frame them for those exact things even before they were declared arguido ??
why did they leave the twins behind when they went to rome ?? I know i’d never let a kid out of my sight if one of my kids had been abducted
why have they left portugal when they said they would’nt until maddie was found ?
why did they want to use the find maddie fund to pay their legal fees ?
newscorp has played things excellently
they would have known that the main suspects are alsways the last person to se the dead person (the mccanns) and the first person to find the body
so they got in cosy knowing the mccanns would open up and then waited and believe me when the web of deceit has been exposed for what it is they will play up their role and show both sides
unfortunately you seem to be one of the brainashed masses that hang on every word from murdoch enterprises
open your mind, ask the hard questions of yourself examinining all the available evidence, the actions of both the mccanns and their friends and you will find that there is significant reason for doubt and suspicion
September 12th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
correction: RTP television and not PTP
September 12th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Two days ago the big boss of the PJ spoke for the PTP television, telling that they checked on the telephone calls of the couple on that day. Before Gerry called the police, he called Sky News, whose journalist took one and a half hour to arrive in Praia da Luz.He arrived after the police arrived. Did Gerry had already the telephone number of Sky News in his pocket?
The man of the PJ said also that they implored the Mccanns not to make noise around the case, no photos, no description of the pajamas because “” they would sign the death penalty of their daughter”. “The abductor would panic and kill her.” Even though they did it, with a huge amount of noise.Probably hoping if her boby would be found, they could say: “you were right. Unfortunately the abductor got in panic”.This I heard from a reliable person who watched the RTP 2 or one day ago and she heard what the boss of the PJ said. He also said that for the first time the PJ is confronted with a perfect crime among tourists, who arrived only 3 days before(April 30).Was it an accident?
Was it an accident? So perfect. Who was helping them? Somewhere I read that if you put parfum on a corpse, it makes impossible for a dog to detect it.Some other thing: somebody suggested the couple could have removed the internal organs of the child, to delay the smell of a body, which could explain odours up til the sea: somebody might have brought her organs to the see, and her body to the car.
September 12th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
The McCanns are RISK TAKERS.
They were willing to take risks to play Russian Roulette with the lives of their children by leaving them night after night alone in an unlocked apartment.
Unfortunately for Madeleine, they lost the game!
Anything even more sinister than that, I dont know, but that should be enough for them to be prosecuted as a warning to all those other risk takers out there who want to play the game with the lives of their kids.
September 12th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
it doesn’t matter what blameless profession lives they led before this happened, its not about that its about their children. and no i dont ‘know lot’ but i can think and reason. and as for hersay a lot of what i read comes from the mccans themselves, their friends and family. i take all the stuff from the police with a big grain of salt. i dont hate them, i just want the truth to come out and if they are guilty of some misconduct i want them to be punished
of course i have compassion, it must be terrible to lose a child. even if one of them did it and the other is covering up, they loved her and miss her. you said it yourself, these children are IVF conceived and should be doubly precious. these are well educated people who, as doctors, have a vast understanding of the dark side of life, which makes it harder to understand they left them alone. and yes it is hard work raising children but they did have a live in nanny at home didnt they.. and as for free time on holiday without the kids, they had plenty of that while the children were in the creche to spend doing what they wanted.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Gosh. You all know such a lot don’t you?
Most of what you apparently “know” is hearsay. None of us were there. The Portugese police have released very few facts, we actually don’t have a clue what happened.
I may well be proved wrong, but I find it incredibly hard to believe that two hitherto blameless professionals would act in the way they are alleged to have done.
And I still don’t get how a body can be moved in front of the world’s press with no one noticing.
As to their parenting skills. How the do any of us know what they are like as parents? Again this is hearsay.
I may not have done what they did, but presumably they thought it was safe, otherwise they wouldn’t have done it. I also find it hard to believe that anyone who has had to have IVF to have their children wouldn’t then regard them as a precious commodity.
They had three children under four, which is incredibly hard work. It is not such a sin to want a bit of child free time in the evening. If they made an error of judgement they’re going to pay for that for the rest of their lives. Something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.
To all of you who are vociferously voicing your hatred for a couple you don’t know, I say this:
How perfect are your own parenting skills? Have you never shouted at/smacked/been furious with your children? Have you never wanted time out to yourselves?
Pull the great whacking stick out of your own eye before you pull the specks of dust out of the eyes of others.
And let he/she who is without sin cast the first stone.
Haven’t any of you got an ounce of compassion?
I’m outta here. The air is far too toxic.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:47 am
its the CLAN MCCANN on the telly that proves theyre a shady bunch. the more i see of these family members and numerous “friends” it cements their guilt even further. they sedated theyre kids, howver they gave that kid too much and she died… BUT it may be worse than that maybe they were abusing the children, as we know the mccanns friends were also “checking on the kids”. Just think of all the people who will look stupid when it comes out….David Beckam, other celebs,……THE POPE!
September 12th, 2007 at 1:04 am
Appalled Mother, none of us knows definitely what happened to Madeleine, but we do know what led up to her disappearance if the McCanns are telling the truth.
What we do know is that they were prepared to leave these little ones alone night after night while they went out for the evening with their friends.
Ask yourself could you do that, and I bet the answer is no. In fact my cat took better care of her kittens and was reluctant to take her eyes off them for a second.
The McCanns are risk takers, and they did not tell the truth from the start about how far they actually were away from them and how often they checked on them.
And even Gerry is saying now that he checked at 9pm and Madeleine was not in the same room as the twins and he assumed she had gone into their bedroom, but did not bother to look to find out. If you had not seen her since you left her to go out would you not have bothered to check if she really was there or would you have left without bothering to, as Gerry said he did.
I believe they should be charged with endangering the lives of their children anyway, irrespective of whether they were the ones that killed her.
I hope and pray she is still alive, but if we are to overlook the negligence of the McCanns then we must also be prepared to overlook it every time a parent nips down to the local pub on the corner and something terrible happens to their kids because they were left alone. Those parents will no doubt feel just as bad for leaving them alone. it is tragic. Yet they will more than likely be prosecuted and perhaps even have their children taken away from them for being irresponsible parents. Children deserve to be protected, and if they are not going to get protection from their parents don’t you think somebody should be looking out for them to make sure they are protected in the future.
Or do you think the McCanns should be treated differently and if so why?
September 11th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
appalled mother. yes 20 indicators do make a 100% match, but 15-17 matches are enough proof of a DNA match for a British court of law.
and if Kate did kill her the theory is it would have been an accident. so she can still grieve for her beloved child. women who miscarry or abort mourn there children. as for no one looking for her, the countryside is being searched but in the immediate area. the police have applied for permission to dig up the streets and search the church, apartments of there ‘tapas nine’ and where the mccans stayed in Portugal. face facts shes the most recognised child in the world and there hast been one verifiable sighting of her. so where do you suggest the search should go to?
September 11th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
NO I am not in the slightest bit xenophobic. I don’t think our police always get it right, but there have been a catalogue of errors in this case from day one.
Namely, the police took over an hour to arrive at the scene, by which time an abductor could have got over the Spanish border, the crime scene was never secured then let out again very quickly, the car with the spurious DNA in it was returned to the McCanns, which wouldn’t happen here. etc etc.
The so called DNA evidence amounts to an 80% match of Madeleine’s DNA which could easily be explained by the presence of the twins/or the parents. To make 100% match you apparently need 20 indicators, and they don’t have it. The DNA evidence is coming via Sky News and today the Portugese police is playing down the significance.
IF, and to my mind it is a very very big if, there was some tragic accident and Kate McCann did indeed kill her daughter, then how was she able to dispose of the body when her friends were close by? And is it realistic to imagine that someone who up until now has led a blameless life should suddenly decide to throw it all away and go and sit calmly at dinner with friends. It just doesn’t add up.
And if she then decided to go and get the body from wherever she left it, how did she manage that trick when the whole world was watching her?
I think the pain on her face yesterday reveals that she is a woman mourning the loss of her daughter. And the way his voice cracked showed his pain. I don’t believe for a moment that they did anything wrong. The Portugese police have cocked up this investigation badly and don’t want the inconvenience of having the McCanns hanging around. I predict no charges will ever be brought and the case will be quietly dropped.
In the mean time the real tragedy is there is a child missing and no one is doing anything about it.
I posted on these boards because I was so horrified by the small minded nasty bitchiness of most of the comments I see here.
Don’t any of you have better things to do with your lives?
September 11th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
To ‘appalled mother’….Come on ‘wake up and smell the coffee’ we’re all being manipulated by the McCanns. I’m sure the Portugese Police are acting totally professionally. Why suddenly do the British think our Police Service is so wonderful as opposed to any European Police Service….or are you xenophobic! Which isn’t really PC is it?
September 11th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
What sad little twisted lives you all lead. I have never read such pernicious poison as I have on this page.
Just because the McCanns don’t break down every five minutes you’ve all decided they are guilty. To me they appear broken people. She looks harrowed and drawn, his eyes look dead and dull. The way they were with their other two children shows loving devoted parents.
NONE of us know what happened on May 3. All you lot are doing are speculating.
If you are wrong, and I think you are, I think you should be ashamed of yourselves.
I don’t think the McCanns had anything to do with their daughter’s disappearance. I think the Portugese police have cocked up, are clutching at straws and wanted them out of the country because they were becoming an embarrasment.
The DNA evidence is severely flawed and now, surprise, surprise the Portugese police are saying it isn’t so important after all.
How on earth could they have a) hidden a body and b) transferred it somewhere with the eyes of the world’s press on them.
The truth is this poor couple have lost their daughter and their lives will never be the same.
September 11th, 2007 at 10:58 am
The report in the Times listed Sky News as its source, unfortunatley Sky News has had doubt cast of it ‘factual’ reporting as poth the spokesman and director of the portugese police have both made statements regarding the inaccuracies and fabrication of ‘truths’ with regards to SKY.
Also, seen as the police seem to be so secretive on all the other details, I very much doubt that highly sensitive information would be released without the full picture being told.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Check out the latest report in the Times website - it gives exact info with regard to the finding of the dna etc - interesting
September 11th, 2007 at 12:40 am
Hi Frank, I don’t think you’re theory is really plausible as the police seem to have confirmed that the blood wasn’t found in the boot of car. That was what my previous post was about.
I heard that police had found trace DNA on the windowsill of the apartment along with DNA in another apartment in the Ocean Club complex. Has anyone heard who is linked to the other apartment???
September 11th, 2007 at 12:32 am
thanks for the info. i wondered about that. has anyone seen the news about the 15 yr old that vanished here in the UK. ?her parents were on television begging for her to come home or for information. man did they look bad. now that’s what i call suffering. i think i wouldn’t have been so suspicious of the mccans if they acted like that. i have a wild idea. maybe Maddy didnt die that night but was seriously hurt. she was kept somewhere for a couple of weeks. she then died and they moved her in the rental car. wild i know but no more than the idea that the car was rented by the kidnapper/murderer and then the macanns rented the same car. oh and i dont believe the police have to prove how teh blood(if that’s what it is) got into the car that’s a prosecutors job. . all they need to say is 1 / shes was dead 2/ her body in that car 3 / her parents hired the car.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:20 am
Portuguese CID spokesman: “Sky News story about Madeleine’s DNA in van rented by McCann is false” - 10.09.07 (22h07)
Chief-Inspector Olegário de Sousa, spokesman of Portuguese CID, said that “Sky News story about Madeleine’s DNA in the van rented by the McCann, is false.” Mr. Olegário said also that the he talked with Martin Brunt today (September 10) afternoon, around 7.00 pm, but the Sky News crime correspondent didn’t asked any question about DNA samples in the McCann van and that subject wasn’t even referred during the conversation. “The content of that news is completely false”, the Polícia Judiciária spokesman said.
Just found this at http://gazetadigital.blogspot.com/ this is an online publication from Portugal in English. The author Paulo Reis has a tendency to report of factual information rather that hyping up any rumours without substainiating them first. He has some very interesting items relating to the Madeleine McCann mystery.
September 10th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Hello Frank, I have heard, read or seen something about Gerry saying the kids were given something to make them sleep but no idea exactly, you could try ‘Julie Pain A Blogspate’ as she usually has a good take on what is happening.
This thing about the car having been hired by the group from the beginning is something that I have read somewhere as well, but no idea specifically where as I flick around from site to site to have a look, but it is strange and am wondering whether the Team McCann people have put this around to confuse. None of the news media is mentioning that so perhaps it’s not true because they appear to be repeating so much that are fed to them by the spokespeople of the McCanns.
Don’t think dead bodies bleed in the normal sense of the word, but blood does seep out of dead bodies if there is an opening I suppose. Don’t know whether they can tell whether blood is from a live or dead person, but the cadaver dog apparently went a bit wild in the back of the car with the scent of a cadaver, and a video of this was said to have been shown to Kate, but now Kate McCann is saying that as she is a doctor she must have picked up the scent from visiting dead patients. I am wondering if she has a change of clothes or what? Does she really wear the same clothes at work as on holiday and not even wash them?
The McCanns are hiring the very best lawyers money can buy and are trying to get the Fund money released to them according to the Mail newspaper.
The thing that is baffling a lot of people though is that the McCanns have said they would do everything possible to assist the investigation yet have so far refused to answer 40 questions at least.
The British police are very much involved with this as well, and have been sitting in the next room during questioning of the McCanns and even at times have fed questions to the Portuguese police for them to ask the McCanns. Also their body language has been observed and filmed while questioned and is being interpreted?? Make of that what you will. Don’t ask me where you can find this stuff, because I have found information at various sites on the computer, and heard news from various TV news channels and newspapers, so am trying to make some sense of it.
The couple have also it is said? been followed around for weeks and their conversations listened to from a distance. Can’t hide much nowadays apparently with all the technology they have!
September 10th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Frank, a body stops bleeding when the heart stops beating. You can see it on victims of war, victims of assassinations, in detective films.There is relatively few blood around their corpses.I think Madeleine’s blood dried out around her body and it lost it in the car.By the way, they found the evidences back in the car, the place where you put the bags.It is impossible that they kept her in a bag, for weeks and weeks, near them. Somebody must have helped them.After the crime, the couple was going every afternoon to the church, they even got it’s key to enter it when they wished.Millions of Masses.Was he body kept in the church?Did they confess the accident to the priest(obliged to keep secret) and he felt he had to help them?For sake of the twins?A priest is not a saint, he is human.Besides there work there also an Alglican shepard, from England.Othe people work there as well but they had to speak English.She disappeared very efficiently, very fast, and the church is about 100 metres from the resort.
September 10th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
tiana. if the car had been hired by someone else in the group or the whole party doesn’t do anything to the DNA. it depends what this DNA is. if its a hair, skin or any bodily fluids like urine, yes it could be there because Maddy took a ride in the car. but if its blood and if its from a dead person then its still relevant. i do admit that the timing is off. if she died on that night and the blood has been found in a car they hired all that time afterwards. someone said its because a dead body doesnt bleed. is that true?.
and where did you read Gerry admitted drugging the kids to help them sleep?. i thought he was still denying it.
September 10th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Hello Alice,
Well if it turns out that it is true that the car was hired previously by them all then the DNA evidence would be out of the door, so don’t know where this story came from originally but the case against McCanns may go down river on that.
However, it would make more sense than waiting 25 days to transport Madeleine’s body to wherever it has been put if they had access to that car from the time of the disappearance, supposing of course they did have a hand in her death.
I think the police have much more than that though, and are leaking it out slowly, plus they may have e mails and telephone conversations. The McCanns don’t appear to have realized that there have been people listening to them for weeks from a great distance. That’s how clever the listening devices are now.
I heard last night that police had also found Madeleine’s blood under the couch and on the window ledge in the apartment.
What with blood on the wall, carpet and curtains, what on earth was going on?
At least Gerry has admitted they did give the kids something to put them to sleep. However, that strengthens his abductor theory if they can’t prove Madeleine died in the apartment. And we now have the answer as to why they didn’t bother to dig up the roadworks as they knew Madeleine was in no fit state to walk out the door.
It does raise suspicion of them though that Madeleine may have choked while asleep and nobody around to help her. Poor child.
September 10th, 2007 at 11:09 am
It would be highly unlikely that they would get the very same car from a car hire company that they and their friends did 5 weeks earlier. i would think that the only way that coincidence would happen was if the McCanns particularly asked for the same car - and a request like that would draw attention to the car. I cant imagine for one minute that the car is the same one hired previously by the party. Maybe the same hire company.
September 9th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
I think there may be some confusion with the car hire, in that I have read several times that it was hired later exclusively for use by the McCanns, but had been hired previously for use of all the party when they first went out there, but if anybody knows differently please state.
Also one thing people should keep in mind is that the McCanns must be people who are willing to take more of a chance and risk takers to a higher degree than most people, because most people would never leave their kids alone like that.
Does that also equate to people who are better bluffers as well? I wonder?
September 9th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Weren’t they always planning on leaving in September because the lease on their apartment was up? Also I believe they left with full police knowledge, they certainly didn’t do a midnight ‘runner’! In fact they will most like be back within the week to continue interviews.
September 9th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Weren’t they always planning on leaving in September because the lease on their apartment was up?? Also I believe they left with full police knowledge, they certainly didn’t do a midnight ‘runner’!!! In fact they will most like be back within the week to continue interviews.
September 9th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Now they are official suspects they want to return once more to good old Blighty!!!!.oh dear,, where are the sychophantic pro-McGanns now?.
at last an end is in sight for this media circus and we can finally think about the one and only ‘victim’ in this case, “Madeleine”.
September 9th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Anon, Tiana I agree with both your sentiments but lets not forget that we in the UK are no better with our legal system…planting evidence, falsely incarcerating UK nationals…see Guildford 4, Birmingham 6, Tipton 3, countless mothers falsely jailed for the supposed murder of their babies when in fact it was cot-death and recently the ongoing saga of Barry George the supposed murderer of Jil Dando.
We here in the UK also have our leaks when it comes to high profile cases & our media love to sensationalise stories so we have to read inbetween the lines all the time. I think that the spotlight should rightly fall on the parents after all they invited the worlds media to cover this sorry story so they should deal with it & the uncomfortable questions that come with it as well.
After all these two professionals would in their UK jobs have had to notify social services of negligent parents who’d left their children alone night after night & awkward questions would be rightly asked of those parents so why shouldn’t all the searing questions be asked of them, its a classic case of do as I say (because I’m a Dr) and not as I do.
I hope that Madeliene is found one way or another.
September 9th, 2007 at 5:47 am
Wes Tiana, I agree once again with your comments on leaving the children in the room, I also agree that the McCanns should most certainly be charged with Child Endangerment at the very least.
I am commenting on the other ‘facts’ of the case and how when it appears that 3 months after Madeleine went missing police are making no inroads, they then bring in forensic testing and dogs. Considering dogs are unable to smell cavadear smell after 28-30 days (google cavadear dog) and the forensic evidence is collected after the apartment had been aired, relet and cleaned several times. The car was not hired until 25 days later!! The scenario’s that are being propoted by the media is just not plausible.
The PJ have a history of both inadequte initial investigations (at least until the media has shone a spotlight) and have at least once been accused of set up parents of missing children (this is the officer in charge of Madeleines investing, he has been directly accused of allegelly beating a confession out of the mother)
Imagaine what an unsolved dissappearance of a beautiful british toddler would do to the tourist economy???
I just find it incredible that after all this time, the police have evidence that should have been collected and handled at the appropriate time - when she first went missing!!!!
Please don’t mistake my comments, I 100% believe that the McCanns should be brought to justice on the issue of leaving children alone whilst the went out with their friends, and when they say they were only 100 yards away - have you seen the layout of the resort?? To return to the apartment they would have had to have travelled at least 3 times that due to the pool and gates!!!!
I also find it interesting that everytime a credible sighting (eg. the sighting at the Petrol Station at Lagos) and even the Tapas Bar/Pool area have CCTV security monitors - amazingly they always broke/were not working on the night/day in question!!!