Madeleine McCann: The McCanns’ Return To Portugal, A Year Of Looking And Ben Affleck
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THE SUN: “McCanns risk arrest over visit”
KATE and Gerry McCann may risk arrest by returning to Portugal for the one-year anniversary of their daughter’s disappearance.
The couple are prepared to take the chance in a last ditch attempt to revive interest in four-year-old Maddie, missing since May 3.
Any facts?
The doctors, both 39, left the Praia da Luz resort last September – 48 hours after being made official suspects over the mystery.
Gerry and Kate McCann are Doctors. Such are the facts.
Says the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “They want to be there for the first anniversary. Going out there would send the strongest possible message that Madeleine could still be alive and the search for her should continue.”
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: “Turning the tabloids”
Ben Affleck is Gone Baby Gone:
Almost as troublesome was the story’s unforeseen and unintended resemblance to a real-life case of child kidnapping that hit the headlines in the months it was being filmed. That was the disappearance in Portugal last year of British girl Madeleine McCann, who was of a similar age and appearance to the film’s kidnapping victim and had a name eerily similar to the character in the Lehane novel, Amanda McCready.
McCready has disappeared amid the squalor of her south Boston neighbourhood. The police are out in formation, as are the television news vans, antennas raised high, all but trembling for blood.
Madeleine McCann: That’s entertainment
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April 4th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
One of the young nannies in the park was saying that if a child went missing in her care under the same circumstances as the Clan’s - where she had deliberately left the children alone to go on the piss - would she have a cat-in-hell’s chance of getting a job in the same field of employment?
I suspect not. If the child she was in charge of went missing with absolutely no trace or witness would she not be under suspicion of perhaps selling the child? Possibly.
And then she asked that if she was under suspicion and not charged - would she still be allowed to carry on looking after her other charges.
I said that I did not know for sure but that the Clan are our role models and we must look to them, but they did it in another country that actually use their law to prevent parents from abandonment of their children when they want to dine out every night of the week.
Therefore if the Clan’s children were not put into care maybe she could carry on with her job. Just as they are keeping their twins with them.
Albeit allegedly with a an extra person to keep an eye on things.
I said she must be careful if she were to do this as this was the UK and not Portugal and that one day the PJ may charge the Clan with abandonment - but that a loophole in the law would see that they were dining as if in their back garden because it’s a complex complex compex with extra complexities!
However the conversation with the nanny has left me really concerned about whether or not the authorities believe my story about the alien dining on my children.
How else could they have disappeared without a trace??????????
April 4th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Well, got to go and get some sleep. zzzz ZZZZ zzzz
Good Night all.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
486 jo Says:
” Daisy
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You are saying in their eyes it was just fine to leave the kids alone and naturaly they dont consider themselves responsible for anything therefore they are innocent ?????
Certainly. They assessed the situation and made a discretionary decision, the 30 minutes listening service, which they deemed to be appropriate. A discretionary decision is not necessarily the best decision conceivable. But they are British doctors. They did what they did and dont need to be patronised by portuguese authorities.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
246 brandon flours
Shame to read that tourist numbers visiting PDL are so down. Perhaps it would feel a tad embarassingly voyeuristic, although in the Soham case there were lots of ghoulish visitors. What about all the Anorak posters who promised to visit?
April 4th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
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jo Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
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No Jo, I didn’t say they are innocent. What I said is that in their eyes they believe that leaving the kids alone was okay, therefore, in the sense of supervising their kids, IMO they think they did nothing wrong. I do believe they did something VERY WRONG … leaving the kids night after night. I don’t know more than that at this stage. I have my own impressions (that there is more to this case than meets the eye), but I don’t know if they are involved in the disappearance of the child or not.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Reporter, this was my post that led to your challenge.
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Where is the proof that Sergey Malinka was in the taxi? There is none.
All this talk about Beltane and the sign of the goddess, you are to coin a phrase being “at worst naive.”
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So the wager only relates to the second part? If you were to bet me that the Loch Ness Monster exists, I could either lose (if the monster turns up one day) or not win (if it never turns up.) I want to avoid a vague or open-ended wager, so what are the parameters?
As for the charity, the NSPCC seems appropriate. I will keep my word, if I lose I will pay, but before I agree anything I need to know what I’m betting on!
April 4th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Goodbye everyone.
Enjoy the snow this weekend!!
April 4th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
songebob?? I could mean Spongebob!
April 4th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Songebob……. see what I mean??
I just knew they’d pop up being childish. 
hence best to scroll the pondlife and look for the intelligent posters. There are several.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
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Ian Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
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Ian,
I don’t think the “charade” has anything to do with G’s carrer. If I knew the reason behind all of this, I would have solved the case by now. Yes, they ran away as quick as they could, but that doesn’t constitute proof of anything. There are many inconsistencies and that is why I am not a Pro but am still sitting on the fence.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
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Stevo
OK fair enough Stevo, but as I said, you replied that you were not being dishonest and that the mods had an issue with your linking to your site. Again, I don’t know why but the mod’s issue is not my concern so I accepted your answer. I generally dislike and avoid tinyurls in anycase, but they are usually used for long urls, not to disguise the link, which is why I took issue with it.
I don’t know if I explicity answered, (and frankly am not checking) but if I didn’t, it would be that I accepted it the reply. I don’t tend to climb down either and if I had further beef with you then I would have replied. I’m not here to make friends, I don’t gang up with others for the onslaught as some here do. As long as the mods have no beef with me, I think I am allowed to construct my posts as I choose. As do you.
I read a bit of the Cheryl incident. I admit to cringing and was tempted to shout ‘duck’ before your response arrived….
April 4th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
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Daisy
Their first guilt is neglect AND they are also guilty for the consequences of this neglect: death by accident or “abduction which is just IMPOSSIBLE as you very well know.
You are saying in their eyes it was just fine to leave the kids alone and naturaly they dont consider themselves responsible for anything therefore they are innocent ?????
April 4th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
480 Ian Says:
“Ferdinand
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You nearly seemed to say ‘even them’!
April 4th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
PJ let them leave.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
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Ian
April 4th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
462 Daisy Says:
“At the point of the interviews and the subsequent declaration of the arguido status, they must have know that the neglect factor was punishable by jail term in Portugal. They would not risk staying there and perhaps spending 3 years in a Portuguese jail.”
It was clear in May that they would not be punished for abandonment.
Abandonment means abandon your children intentionally. The idea of a jail sentence for them is utter rubbish.
Normally in a case like that a warning might be issued, if nothing happens. In case of an abduction, a warning would become superfluous.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
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Lone Pigeon Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
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You and Ian are seeing this from the point of view that they are guilty of more, therefore they are bad people. I am seeing it form the point of view that they could be innocent of hurting the child (but guilty of neglect) and therefore fearful of staying in a country they don’t know and especially, with reports of corruption in the PJ (Casa Pia, etc.). In their eyes there was nothing wrong with leaving the kids alone, therefore they do not consider themsevles, IMO, as guilty in that sense. Time will tell !
April 4th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
474
Ferdinand
You nearly seemed to say ‘even them’!
April 4th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
473
coolandcalm
Personally I could never be friendly to anyone who supports them, not if they really support them. In your case, your a Mrs Bouquet - I bet you vote tory too.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
461 Lone Pigeon
Hi Yourself, hope the atmosphere here is fragrant, not like last night, and the debate
intelligent. Have there been any comments on the thread i posted.?
I don”t fancy scrolling through so if anything important has happened fill me in will
you….er perhaps I should rephrase that.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
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Stevo
Really? Wow! Not a date I remember (it should be remembered shouldn’t it).
April 4th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Scarlett you know very well what I meant, nothing to do with a taxi.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Have a great weekend everyone
Good luck at the races
I cant wait for next week !!!
April 4th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
463 Stevo:
I don’t think that they could influence the schedule of the European Parliament. So the time of the interviews must have been adapted to the McCanns plan to visit Brussels.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Spongebob……. I think one has to be convinced of the McCanns criminal involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine and to look forward gleefully to their arrest. (which IMO aint gonna happen!) If not then you’re a thicko!!!!
I don’t think there’s much I’ve not been called?? and you of course!!
Problem on here I find is that are certain posters who feel that because you disagree with their views, they have to right to insult you and be personally abusive.
However, there are others who I really like (in a cyberspace way) but who I am poles apart from regarding the McCanns..
Jesting is good, disagreeing is good, insulting not.
Good manners have nothing to do with views.
I have a friend who’s a fierce ‘anti-McCann’ who’s a v. well known poster on 3arguidos but although we disagree we are never rude to each other.
IMO that’s how it should be. Good manners are free!
April 4th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
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yampster
In some places that could mean the same person!
April 4th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
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Daisy
But why not return with their army of lawyers? For Madeleines sake? Surely they could see that all this negativity would harm ‘the search’? Millions of people now doubting them and interest plummeted? Thats whats happened. So why not go back and clear their names and recover support? Surely they have enough money, political and legal support?
Whats so scary that even that army isnt enough?
April 4th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
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Daisy Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
464
Lone Pigeon Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
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No, I’m not condoning that. They should face the music, but we were talking about why the refused to answer questions and left Portugal. And my answer was “fear of the unknown”.
they shouldn’t have left portugal if they had nothing to fear. They shopuld have answered all questions and looked for their daughter. END OF.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
SC46
Not sure but I do wonder how long that event in Brussels has had their name attached to it. We could theorise all day but whatever happens I think next week is going to be extremely entertaining wherever they are. The Belgians have rotten eggs too remember!
448 Denzylle
You’re welcome. I’ve seen one child who crops up a lot in the buggy but never been able to establish who’s child it is. Some have suggested it was the Tanner/O’Brien child.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
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Daisy
Thats right, they ran away to save their skins - suddenly Portugal wsnt closer to their daughter, suddenly she wasnt that important at all!
But was she in the first place or was the whole thing a charade built to protect the career of Gerry McCann? He obviously see’s himself as a shaper - a leader of men (
).