Memory serves…BBC report on the reward dated 12th May:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6649951.stm

Not that I give any credence to this latest unkindness, just pondering hypothetically.

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I can just imagine the furore about wasting public money if they asked for the case to reopened!! They were being blamed enough for that even before the case was archived. It can only be reopened if there is new evidence; I’m sure that will happen if there is. Why not trust the police on this one?

The reconstruction should have been done when the Mcs asked for it (and were refused), ie very soon after Madeleine disappeared when someone’s memory might be jogged and the events of the evening were fresh in everyone’s minds. That’s exactly what the police here did when Holly and Jessica disappeared.

As for the boring old thing about Kate not answering those particular questions, well, it’s been gone over so many times! If one has a lawyer, then one follows his/her advice.

June, how could they afford a babysitter after shelling out for all those tennis lessons? Why Mark Warner didn’t make baby-sitting freely available every night to anyone who spent, say, €150 on the services of their tennis instructors I’ll never understand.

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Are the parents behind this latest?

CC,

My favourite is why didn’t they get a baby sitter…..

Maybe they could also explain, why an intruder have entered through the unlocked patio door and left through the window, carrying Maddie in his arms. Why did he take such a risk to snatch this girl in a bedroom with also two sibblings there ? Why did the twins sleep deeply through all the night? Why Kate has washed Maddies pet Cuddle Cat? And why the sniffer dogs detected the scent of death on her clothes?

“It’s enough to pull the strings of any old lag’s ‘eart, guv. I imagine they’re coughing like canaries in prisons up and down the land.”

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OK!

So do you think the parents should just give up now and get on with life without trying to find out any more?

It must be those new exhortations at findmadeleine.com :

- A little girl stolen, a family torn apart. But saying nothing is the worst crime of all.

- The world is watching, If you know something, say something.

- If you stay quiet you are as guilty as those who took her.

- Imagine if she was your child… Imagine the pain and the grief… Imagine if someone like you never came forward?

And my personal favourite:

- It’s never too late to do the right thing.

It’s enough to pull the strings of any old lag’s ‘eart, guv. I imagine they’re coughing like canaries in prisons up and down the land.

I shouldn’t think anyone would risk taking a child for just £100k, its really small beer money in the comparisons and schemes of things, and I’m fairly certain she would have been returned when the rewards were offered. Two years ago the £ v Euro was a lot higher.

And IF someone is speaking out now, why not then?

Hi. I wasn’t actually commenting on your post specifically! I’m sure you don’t rate the Star…..in terms of news anyway!

I guess nobody involved would ever dare to claim the reward. No amount of money would make up for a lifetime in gaol plus the undying hatred of the world. There might be somebody who knows what happened but wasn’t actually directly involved. Unlikely though. In any case, such a person might be too frightened of the actual perpetrator(s) to say anything.

I have no idea what happened to Madeleine but I think the likeliest scenario may be “Taken. Used. Disposed of.” as C and C always says. But if I were a parent, of course, I wouldn’t give up the search until and unless I had definite evidence of what happened. You couldn’t really, could you? You couldn’t give up all hope.

What I was asking was why has no one come forward to claim the huge ransom/reward. In particular any criminal that was a peripheral part of the abduction?

Well, case solved. Edgar and his jovial assistant should have this rolled up in days.