When they were made formal suspects we are told that between them they refused to answer 40 or so questions put to them by the police.

We are potentially talking about child homicide here a very serious crime not some sort of tax investigation.

If you watch any of those reality TV police shows you’ll notice that in the UK the police don’t say “You have the right to remain silent” when they arrest someone.
Instead these days they say something to the effect “It may harm your defence if you fail to say now anything which you later rely on in court”

I think the Portuguese police with help from the British police where necessary should insist on answers to these 40 or so questions or the inference should be taken such that it most certainly harms their defence.

If necessary they should be asked to volunteer to take polygraph tests (lie detector tests).

I also think that the group of friends who were with the McCanns when they dined out on that fateful night should be re-questioned thoroughly. Some friends they would turn out to be if they had got involved in this but none the less the possibility cannot be excluded.

The possibility of child homicide is such an abhorrent crime, like paedophilia, that the British public are not content to let any perpetrators escape justice by hiring expensive lawyers, refusing to answer questions, and hoping to get off on some legal technicality.

They were quite happy to woo the British public and seek their approval for their fund raising campaign and so they must now seek the approval of the British public regarding these allegations.

The British public demand to know the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth in this case, we owe it to Madeline.

And I am stunned at the number of people on this site that say we’ve all done it at times !?!

Have these people LOST THEIR MINDS !!!!

Anything could have happened to these children through a simple accident, to a fire, one of them being sick and choking on their own vomit, even before you consider something more extreme.

PARENTS do not leave children of this age on their own FULL STOP.

As a parent of three children myself one of whom is a three year old I know that you have to watch them at all times in case they swallow something, have an accident, or are put at risk in some other way.

Talking of the overdose theory four points occur to me.

1) Before doctors sedate or anaesthetise there is a period before this that you mustn’t eat or drink anything because there is a big risk of the recipient being sick.

2) How likely is it that these children who we’re told were routinely put to bed at six O’clock (while on their holidays can you imagine) were prevented from eating any snacks for several hours beforehand?

3) Could having sedatives night after night have had a cumulative effect?

4) Is it possible that, if the medication was purchased locally, instructions written in Portuguese might have been misread or misunderstood?

They appear to be a mixture of being genuinly distraught but also as if they are hiding something. There appears to be an element that is more than just the guilt of leaving the children alone (massive as that guilt must be). I do not belive they killed her.

Perhaps it that, in addition to leaving the children alone, by giving the children something to sleep they made it easier for someone to abduct her.

At the very begining the head of the local police said that two other children (girls) had been abducted and her case was not being treated any differently. I never hear this mentioned again. It was just before they interviewed the family who had a 12 year old son go missing, but no one mentioned the girls again. If this is true, has anyone followed this up.

Nobody is even mentioning the fact that the McCann’s were in a foreign country. Like so many Brits when they go abroad, they think the foreign country should do things the same as in the UK. Like Gerry McCann’s attitude, that is sheer ignorance. If anything, you’d look after your kids with more vigilance in a foreign country than you would back home. I hope the Portuguese cops throw the book at them. They’ve never looked like they’re grieving a missing daughter from day 1.

And, what was Gerry doing at a conference in Scotland today? How is that supposed to aid the search for his “allegedly” abducted daughter? What are all his travels for? Both parents look guilty in every interview as they roll their eyes and lack direct eye contact. There’s too many similarities to the way Ian Huntley behaved albeit these are professional doctors who are supposed to be pillars of society…

I saw pictures of their apartment and it can’t be seen from the tapas bar. The unlocked door faced out onto a road and the tapas bar is down the road and through security gates. The police say there was no evidence of a break in as they left the children alone when the doors were unlocked. It isn’t like a complex, as the apartments are outside the part with the bar. It says on the holiday site that they want the holiday makers to feel part of the town, so the apartments are outside of a complex.

They are guilty of neglect if nothing else. Why are two well off doctors asking for money from the public anyway? I bet they haven’t sold their house in England while they’re sunning themselves in Portugal. Would be interesting to see a run down of the expenses. They might be doctor’s, but some of Gerry’s family look well rough and they’re running the site.

Think about it…

Time will tell!

Also, the friend of theirs, another Doctor who was accused of having something to do with it because he left the cafe about the same time it is ajudged that Madeleine went missing, maintains that he was going to see to his daughter who was vomiting !! ferchrissakes…..he was out drinking and eating while his daughter was VOMITING ????? and if she had choked on her own vomit then what ?? …not a good look.