He is alleged to have originally claimed he was staying with Miss Walczuch that night, but has since said he was at home all evening with his mother.

This week Jennifer Murat testified to the BBC’s Panorama programme that her son had never left the villa, and branded the McCanns’ friends “liars”

Try telling the lawyers that. We’ve all been creamed.

OK - sorry for the somewhat intemperate tone.

And yes, I understand how breaking up the thread into short page-views solves some bandwidth problems - but hey, I use Wordpress too, and the reconfiguration really shouldn’t take a month to get back pretty much to where it was to begin with (but with a ‘chunky’ thread).

And - boring I know - but it’s the WRONG FONT.

I think the whole rerereredesign over the last month has been pretty much a disaster.

The site wasn’t broke in the first place, so why on earth has some amateur been pissing around for weeks ‘fixing’ it??????????

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Mods and Admin

Murder dear, I have no idea where said post has gone.

We have had real problems with the high level of posters daily, our designer is far from useless, and maintaining a site for its content and accessability is an onerous task, and on going. If it gives the impression of ‘not being broke, why fix it’, well more kudos to our chappie than you are giving him.

What happened to all he posts between 1:25am and 5.24am?

Has your busy web reredesigner dumped part of the database?

And did you ask him/her why they’re so keen to use a serif font? Is it just to be different?

Sans is MUCH easier to read on a backlit screen.

Mods and Admin

have no idea what went on or even went wrong overnight, Murder.

As to the techie side ?????????????

I dont believe anything I read anymore. Haven’t for a while actually. And certainly wont after this case. And dont even get me started on tv news coverage…..

Since when have supposed journalists and expert analysts become comediens?…………..

How come a story comes out that Murat is being re interviewed even though there is no further evidence and yet we read that the judge has refused that the McCanns be re interviewed because there’s no further evidence?

Its all f****** bullshit.

Lets just analyse on here.

If we’re ever allowed…….

I already pointed out it makes no sense that the McCanns were talking about plain Calpol, becasue that does not contain diphenhydramine. The McCanns’ WHOLE POINT was that any diphenhydramine found in blood samples probably came from Calpol — thus they MUST be referring to the product “Calpol Night” which does contain diphenhydramine.

And by the way, the McCanns have admitted that none of their children were ill, and their claim was that Calpol was used to help induce sleep — that is to say, they admitted abusing the drug.

“Surely the PJ, since they were suspicious, would know since they would have searched the apartment.”

The PJ may have found some Calpol Night, or the McCanns could just be lying about using Calpol Night. It could very well be that any diphenhydramine found in the blood was NOT from Calpol Night, but from pills, injection, etc.

“Even if they did have Calpol Night, the idea you could give a ‘fatal’ dose to a child is not credible - to me anyway. ”

No one said the issue was a “fatal dose” of diphenhydramine. The issue was merely that diphenhydramine (which acts as a sedative) was said to be found in blood samples, and the McCanns claimed this was because they administered Calpol to all 3 children.

“the amount required would be hard to administer and would be something like a whole bottle - adt that would likely only induce a coma, if that.”

Again, the issue is not a fatal dose. The issue would be why doctors are administering diphenhydramine (whether orally or by syringe) when the children are not ill and there is no medical requirement for it.

The dosage at which diphenhydramine is used recreationally (to create hallucination and delirium) is only slightly more than twice the USA maximum recommended dosage. (do a Google for many first-hand accounts of recreational use).

Rather than fatal dosage, the most likely diphenhydramine-related cause of death would have been an accident caused by , or aggravated by, a state of delirium. The girl would also be more likely to wander off and get lost than if she were not drugged.

If Madeleine had woken up, and been delirious, there was no way for the McCanns to know, because they were a 120m walk away, busy consuming alcohol, socializing, and playing quiz games.

just found this:

“McCann’s ‘upset’ over spoof Maddie brochure”

The newspaper ad is shown.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=313336

I have just been to a few sites and all had Google Adsense ads about Madeleine. Since these have to be paid for I’m sure whomever put them up is certain people will click.

What next?

http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/rothley/17629.html

Would you like a link to their church?

Have never posted on here before but have been enjoying your banter for quite some time now!

anyway, here’s a question I meant to post about 4 weeks ago but never got round to it - Who is the McCanns priest/vicar/ whatever in their home town? He must know them ever so well, them being so religious and all but he must also be the only cleric in the UK who doesn’t relish his face being plastered across the media whilst he conducts services of remembrance/ support/ whatever. I would love to hear his character witness statment.

Thanks for the reply. I tend to agree with that analysis.

“British doctors believe it is extremely unlikely for parents - especially doctors such as the McCanns – to give a child an overdose of regular medicines intended to sedate children.

Antiallergy medication, such as Piriton, can be given as a sedative but at least a bottle would be needed to cause an overdose. Professor Saad Shakir, of the Drug Safety Research Unit in Southampton, said: “It is very difficult to persuade a child to take that amount.”

The McCanns have said they only gave their children Calpol, which is a painkiller containing paracetamol. It does not have a sedative effect. If administered in huge doses, such as a couple of bottles, it would damage the liver - but the effect would take several days to become apparent. Nor is a child who has overdosed doomed: they can be given an antidote to neutralise the effect of the drug. ”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2414830.ece