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My heart goes out to Gerry and Kate. Is it not enough that they have to cope with the fact that their daughter is missing? Now they have to shift their focus on their own positions. How painful this must be. I am amazed ast the speed with which the prosecutor is moving to have these people convicted. What is happening about the search.

I see this couple as intelligent, and professional, and if there was any proof that they harmed their daughter, and then tugged at the international heartstring, I would find this utterly disgusting.

I pray for the family, but most of all for little Mddy’s safe return. The thought of the possibility of the twins being removed from their care must be horrendous for Gerry and Kate.

May God give them the strength to continue.

Frankly, I don’t know. Of course Maddy’s DNA will be on her toys, now Kate’s are all over the cat. Am I correct in thinking tht the car was hired on 25 August? If so, who had the car prior to the McCann’s hiring it? Are the trraces of blood in the wheelcase human? Was the car searched earlier? Where was Maddy hidden before being transported in the car on 25 August. What kind of people would commit such a crime then have an audience with the Pope?

Sometimes I feel the police are on to something, but then I conclude that they are anxious to close the case.

I m watching the news.

they could still us the fund to search for maddy, private investigators etc, why havent they done this? maybe they are scared of the results

GOOD MORNING VIETNAM !!!
I truely think this is getting ridiculous now,
they are going all around the country side only to come back in through the back door where they began….at Robert Murats gate. mark my words, his dna will be on the cat, go with the first gut instinct, they made him the peudo guido for a reason

Maybe they sedated M so that the abductor could abduct more easily, thats why K shouted ‘theyve taken her”.
Shes being kept alive and well on a boat, and on day150 all will be reunited.

They know this thats why there so smug.
its possible

Bridgit,
Even if didn’t kill Maddie, they were still happy to leave their 3 children alone in a holiday apartment whilst they got drunk.

I don’t know if the McCanns did it or not - but surely their attitude is odd even if they are doctors. I know a few Doctors - they can be arrogant and callous, but only up to a point. I think if one of them had a missing kid and was accused of murder they might cry, or forget to shower for at least one day. With the McCanns it’s one photo-op after another, all their statements are scripted and the pair of them walk around stoney-faced with the occasional grimace. That can’t be normal.

9, Billy, this seems to have been misreported by skynew headlines.

Lindy didn’t explicit back them (at least in the quoted text I saw). Lindy cautioned against judging them based on partial evidence.

E.g., “…as the public, we want to be careful not to run ahead.”

15 Sikal. You are alleging that the case has affected tourism on the Algarve. If correct, this must be easy to establish. So, please can we please have some facts and figures to support this?

In fact, I doubt if it is right. The fascination with which this case has been followed may well have increased tourist revenues on the Algarve.

I find the challenge “Find the body and prove we killed her ” completely distasteful.

A loving parent would never refer to their child as ‘the body’. That smacks of distanceing themselves from Madeline as a person in the same way a mortician does when carrying out post mortens.

15 To follow up, all the journalists and tv crews have gotta sleep and gotta eat.

I’d be surprised if this wasn’t the best year ever in Praia for takings.

Bridgit A Sam Bailey

I agree. The two parents - Kate especially - have shown remarkable forbearance considering the weight of the world is on their shoulders. This is an ordinary upper-middle-class, and - until now - comfortably-off, couple dealing with the prospect of imminent ruin , the loss of their house, their careers, their kids and their liberty - a strain which would buckle most of us

Kate - although very slim - is strikingly good looking but naturally has a kind of cool and distant demeanour and none of the flirtatious “Lady Di” attitude towards the media.

Gerry - although evidently professionally very accomplished - is also not a natural media star and that voice and accent doesn’t endear him to the public at large - particularly south of the border .

Their media advisers have drilled them into performing for the cameras - see yesterdays appearance - “casually” taking their twins to the playground?

But somehow - if this is a battle for hearts and minds - it’s not quite working. They are failing to retain public sympathy because they are in an income bracket above most people’s, they live in a bigger, newer and smarter detached house than most, and Kate is slimmer and better-looking and better-dressed than most and because they’ve overplayed their media hand. And eventually the media will always bite the feeding hand .

And so, day by day, on this thread and on others - they are being castigated by jealous people who shout for them to be brought down. They’re too clever, too well-off , too competent , too composed, too perfect. ergo - they must be “guilty”.

On this thread I detect the clack of gossiping tongues echoing the bygone click of knitting needles amongst the crowds that once loved to watch the guillotine fall.

Justice - truth - and least of all the fate of little Madeleine herself - have little to do with it. This is a society indulging itself in its favourite blood-sport - the destruction of fellow human beings at their most vulnerable.

And the crowd, alas,will not be denied.

I saw an interview with Gerry McCann on the Fox Network. He looked really happy to be on American T.V. He talked like a politician, not a distraught parent. Although, having said that, the entire family talks as if Madeleine’s disappearance was a political issue - like Make Poverty History. All we have to do is buy a wrist band and hey presto! the kid is found.

Holme you say - “This is an ordinary upper-middle-class, and - until now - comfortably-off, couple dealing with the prospect of imminent ruin , the loss of their house, their careers, their kids and their liberty - a strain which would buckle most of us.”

The pictures I saw yesterday say a vastly different story.