Maddie McCann’s parents lose court appeal

[Niamh.]

Actually yeah I've just checked and I was confused with a case that the McCanns referenced after the cadaver scent was found, they used a case where a man was found not guilty of murder because the particular cadaver dogs used in his case were unreliable. But yeah I'll admit that's pretty damning, I think maybe I need to read up more about it because having a brief look through this thread there's a lot I wasn't aware of. I've just always thought that there was no proof, no charges etc, and that the kidnap scenario is plausible (the alternative being so horrific).
Yeah look I was the same until I really started reading up on it, it isnt nice to think they were involved (not that I think they actually killed her but more likely covered up her death) but it does seem to point to that

[Niamh.]

Actually yeah I've just checked and I was confused with a case that the McCanns referenced after the cadaver scent was found, they used a case where a man was found not guilty of murder because the particular cadaver dogs used in his case were unreliable. But yeah I'll admit that's pretty damning, I think maybe I need to read up more about it because having a brief look through this thread there's a lot I wasn't aware of. I've just always thought that there was no proof, no charges etc, and that the kidnap scenario is plausible (the alternative being so horrific).
And to add if they really knew nothing about what happened to her why would rhey instantly try to trash what the dogs found? Why not say My God maybe she died here and someone moved her? Lets investigate this more?

[Vicky.]

Actually yeah I've just checked and I was confused with a case that the McCanns referenced after the cadaver scent was found, they used a case where a man was found not guilty of murder because the particular cadaver dogs used in his case were unreliable. But yeah I'll admit that's pretty damning, I think maybe I need to read up more about it because having a brief look through this thread there's a lot I wasn't aware of. I've just always thought that there was no proof, no charges etc, and that the kidnap scenario is plausible (the alternative being so horrific).

Yes..that was unfortunate to pin their hopes on, given Eugene Zapata later confessed to murder, admitted the body was were the dogs indicated.

I mean, its been reported so many times that the squad working on this case from Scotland Yard is the homicide squad. Not missing persons or something, homicide. Why on earth would that be? The intruder killing her is impossible given the claimed checking routine. As the body would have to be there for (I believe it is) 90 mins...

[anne666]

I do have to admire LT for sticking with this one. I mean, basically everyone else is united in suspecting that the McCanns have at least been "less than truthful" about events. People who disagree on every other topic under the sun are all like "Oh yeah but the McCanns are well dodgy."

But not LT! LT still believes in Kate goddamnit, until the end. He's the Sam to her Frodo :worry:.

If anyone's 10 years accumulated knowledge of this case is based on reading years of gagged (until now) biased UK media reports, it's not surprising.

I think it's doubtful at this stage, i hope I'm wrong though

I think all that could put an end to their nonsense now is perhaps finding Maddie's body or a confession from one of the Tapas gang. Or they will be sacrificed by the TPTB who've needed to so fiercely protect them. I think it's more likely since the damning Supreme Court ruling, added to far more people now being aware of the PJ files. The truth of what their status has been all along is now widely known after their years of silencing have been stopped and after they've successfully pretended they were proven to be innocent of any involvement.
What kind of parents who are claiming their child has been abducted by peadophiles would totally ignore serious police advice and immediately advertise her distinguishing eye coloboma to the world? Effectively signing her death warrant!
They know exactly what happened to Madeleine and knew it was pointless to get out of their apartment and search for her. I don't believe they were directly involved in her death but they should have had the guts to face the consequences.
As you said they were actually saved by Portuguese Law from being arrested based on the Cadaver and Blood dogs findings.

[Niamh.]

If anyone's 10 years accumulated knowledge of this case is based on reading years of gagged (until now) biased UK media reports, it's not surprising.



I think all that could put an end to their nonsense now is perhaps finding Maddie's body or a confession from one of the Tapas gang. Or they will be sacrificed by the TPTB who've needed to so fiercely protect them. I think it's more likely since the damning Supreme Court ruling, added to far more people now being aware of the PJ files. The truth of what their status has been all along is now widely known after their years of silencing have been stopped and after they've successfully pretended they were proven to be innocent of any involvement.
What kind of parents who are claiming their child has been abducted by peadophiles would totally ignore serious police advice and immediately advertise her distinguishing eye coloboma to the world? Effectively signing her death warrant!
They know exactly what happened to Madeleine and knew it was pointless to get out of their apartment and search for her. I don't believe they were directly involved in her death but they should have had the guts to face the consequences.
As you said they were actually saved by Portuguese Law from being arrested based on the Cadaver and Blood dogs findings.

Yeah that was ridiculous

[Vicky.]

Yeah that was ridiculous

Ah but Niamh, it was a 'good marketing ploy'. It will make more people aware and as such, make more $ roll in for court cases and mortgage payments :D Who cares is publicizing that means whoever 'has your daughter' will kill her eh...

[Niamh.]

Ah but Niamh, it was a 'good marketing ploy'. It will make more people aware and as such, make more $ roll in for court cases and mortgage payments :D Who cares is publicizing that means whoever 'has your daughter' will kill her eh...

I know imagine it seriously, imagine actually thinking your child had been kidnapped and doing that, makes zero sense at all unless you knew she wasn't kidnapped.....

Also what parent would even think about "marketing ploys" when their baby had just disappeared?

[Vicky.]

I know imagine it seriously, imagine actually thinking your child had been kidnapped and doing that, makes zero sense at all unless you knew she wasn't kidnapped.....

Also what parent would even think about "marketing ploys" when their baby had just disappeared?

Imagine your child had been kidnapped and you didn't physically search yourself, imagine refusing to answer police questions (yes some may be uncomfortable, BUT...parents/family are always first suspects because...statistics) surely you would help any way you could and would want your name cleared.... Imagine your friends kid had gone missing and you refused to do a reconstruction to help police get a better view of the situation. Imagine your child had gone missing and from the start you mislead police by stating the doors were locked and they must have came in through the window, but then its proven you cannot get in via the window without damage, so your own story then changes to 'we left the door open'. Imagine your child has just gone missing and you are planning parties for the year anniversary instead of hoping she would be found any minute. Imagine rubbishing all 'sightings' and complaining that the police were driving too fast to check one out..Infact, I fall at the first hurdle, as I cannot even begin to imagine going on holiday with the kids, dumping them in the creche from morning til night, then leaving them ALONE in a room in a strange place just so I could go out with friends :umm2:

[Niamh.]

Imagine your child had been kidnapped and you didn't physically search yourself, imagine refusing to answer police questions (yes some may be uncomfortable, BUT...parents/family are always first suspects because...statistics) surely you would help any way you could and would want your name cleared.... Imagine your friends kid had gone missing and you refused to do a reconstruction to help police get a better view of the situation. Imagine your child had gone missing and from the start you mislead police by stating the doors were locked and they must have came in through the window, but then its proven you cannot get in via the window without damage, so your own story then changes to 'we left the door open'. Imagine your child has just gone missing and you are planning parties for the year anniversary instead of hoping she would be found any minute. Imagine rubbishing all 'sightings' and complaining that the police were driving too fast to check one out..Infact, I fall at the first hurdle, as I cannot even begin to imagine going on holiday with the kids, dumping them in the creche from morning til night, then leaving them ALONE in a room in a strange place just so I could go out with friends :umm2:

yep I know it's just crazy, any one of those things you listed would make me suspicious but all of them is just ridiculous.

And I totally agree about the dumping them in the creche all day, why even bother bringing them if they want to spend no time at all with them, usually those type of holidays are all about the kids. I don't know it's just weird, even after ditching them for the whole day that still wasn't enough, they had to dump them at night too

[Vicky.]

yep I know it's just crazy, any one of those things you listed would make me suspicious but all of them is just ridiculous.

And I totally agree about the dumping them in the creche all day, why even bother bringing them if they want to spend no time at all with them, usually those type of holidays are all about the kids. I don't know it's just weird, even after ditching them for the whole day that still wasn't enough, they had to dump them at night too

Indeed. I mean, me and Gav are going away next month. Very much an adult holiday, I plan to relax, eat and drink far too much and forget about everything. So...the kids are staying at grandads for that week. They will love it, they always do. Why would I even consider taking them just to dump on other people and ignore them. Its just stupid.

If the kids didn't like staying with grandad, or grandad couldn't have them...we would have had a different kind of holiday. A FAMILY one where focus is on the kids.

Simple..right?!

[Niamh.]

Indeed. I mean, me and Gav are going away next month. Very much an adult holiday, I plan to relax, eat and drink far too much and forget about everything. So...the kids are staying at grandads for that week. They will love it, they always do. Why would I even consider taking them just to dump on other people and ignore them. Its just stupid.

If the kids didn't like staying with grandad, or grandad couldn't have them...we would have had a different kind of holiday. A FAMILY one where focus is on the kids.

Simple..right?!

Exactly, especially with very young kids like yours (which are probably close to the ages that Maddie and the twins would have been back then, right?) I would not feel comfortable dropping them off with total strangers either. Jeez Luke cried every single day when i dropped him to nursery school when he was 3, it broke my heart leaving him there

[Vicky.]

Exactly, especially with very young kids like yours (which are probably close to the ages that Maddie and the twins would have been back then, right?) I would not feel comfortable dropping them off with total strangers either. Jeez Luke cried every single day when i dropped him to nursery school when he was 3, it broke my heart leaving him there

Skyes actually older than Madeleine was. God thats mental. James is the age the twins were..so yeah.

When we went to centre parcs, we did put them in the creche for 2 hours. Mainly as Skye kept asking to go in (there was a door that looked like a tree...this seemed to be the reason) so I can't criticize putting them in there on the odd occasion. But to put them in the morning til night every day?! Nah. Even if they asked to be in there all that time I would still say no. Its meant to be a family holiday.

And yes, Skye cried her eyes out first day at nursery. Staff told me to just go as a lot of kids are like that. I can still hear the piercing screams to this day :( She loves it now, she loved it 10 mins after I left...but it went against every instinct I had to just leave her there in that state.

[Cal.]

Yeah I agree that you either go on an adults holiday or a kids holiday. Trying to do both is unfair on the children in my opinion.

[ebandit]

...note to the mc cann's.................a child is for life...............not until they

disrupt one's holiday..........................

Mark L

[Niamh.]

Skyes actually older than Madeleine was. God thats mental. James is the age the twins were..so yeah.

When we went to centre parcs, we did put them in the creche for 2 hours. Mainly as Skye kept asking to go in (there was a door that looked like a tree...this seemed to be the reason) so I can't criticize putting them in there on the odd occasion. But to put them in the morning til night every day?! Nah. Even if they asked to be in there all that time I would still say no. Its meant to be a family holiday.

And yes, Skye cried her eyes out first day at nursery. Staff told me to just go as a lot of kids are like that. I can still hear the piercing screams to this day :( She loves it now, she loved it 10 mins after I left...but it went against every instinct I had to just leave her there in that state.

Luke never got used to it :laugh: the only day he didn't cry when I left him was the very last day...because it was the last day.

[Suze]

Something that puzzles me that if say we take it that it was a kidnapping, then why take the biggest and possibly noisiest of the three children and hardest one to get through a small window or anything else they claimed happened with the kidnapping scenerio

[Niamh.]

"I went through a phase of guilt for not knowing what happened to her. I blamed myself for thinking that the place was safe.
"But the certainty that we are truly responsible parents has helped me carry on.
"I know that what happened is not due to the fact of us leaving the children asleep. I know it happened under other circumstances."
Asked about whether she and her husband were responsible for their daughter's disappearance, she said: "It cannot be considered a crime. Someone committed one, but not us."


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[Crimson Dynamo]

"I went through a phase of guilt for not knowing what happened to her. I blamed myself for thinking that the place was safe.
"But the certainty that we are truly responsible parents has helped me carry on.
"I know that what happened is not due to the fact of us leaving the children asleep. I know it happened under other circumstances."
Asked about whether she and her husband were responsible for their daughter's disappearance, she said: "It cannot be considered a crime. Someone committed one, but not us."


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Kate laying it on the line :clap1:

[Crimson Dynamo]

cant wait to see her on BGT

http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Gerry+Kate+McCann+Launch+Their+Book+Madeleine+e5tE lzgbI8rl.jpg

[anne666]

And to add if they really knew nothing about what happened to her why would rhey instantly try to trash what the dogs found? Why not say My God maybe she died here and someone moved her? Lets investigate this more?

Like everything else they haven't done as the parents of an, instantly declared, abducted by peadophiles child. Conning the police and public takes more imagination (and memory function) than they have.
Imagine their reaction if the "totally unreliable" Cadaver and Blood dog had alerted like this inside and outside of Murat's villa, his car, his car key and his clothing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4RDJLMgdWM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8k2GkZ7llc
Mark Harrison, NPIA for missing persons police statement. He's mentioned in the first video
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/MARK_HARRISON.htm
"A large possibility of Madeleine being dead and her body concealed somewhere in the area "

Using public funding to silence alternatives for 8 years out of 10 was another huge error.
In today's gutter press they've laid on a pity party for the ill informed faithful believers in their hopelessly enacted farce with strategically placed collection plates. More money for first class travel and five star hotels for the lot of them while they continue to do nothing to search for their supposedly missing child.
Two short lived and utterly useless Private Investigations in 10 years? Costing only a fraction of the money they've been given by the public. It would be good to have some transparency from the McCanns, friends and family's Limited Company about how the remaining millions in public donations over 10 years have been spent and what any of it had to do with searching for Maddie.

[chuff me dizzy]

"The shutter was smashed and rolled right up,the window was wide open,the curtains whooossshhhheeeddd when I opened the door " Note one curtain is lodged behind the bed, window closed, shutter undamaged and pulled down

[anne666]

"The shutter was smashed and rolled right up,the window was wide open,the curtains whooossshhhheeeddd when I opened the door " Note one curtain is lodged behind the bed, window closed, shutter undamaged and pulled down

Yes, that was one of her two different versions in TV interviews some time later.
Her earlier police statements say something different to both. Can you imagine their horror when the PJ files were released after the public lies they'd told to all and sundry? Do you notice in each version of this fantasy she had no intention of looking in to check on three very small children? Their's was a listening service, apparently and of course the gang gave several different versions of what that consisted of in their conflicting and ever changing statements.
No curtain whooshing wind, strong enough to blow open a full length pair of curtains?? Yeah. No slamming door and she found the curtains open.
KM first police statement.
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/KATE-MCCANN.htm


At around 10pm, the interviewee went to check on the children. She went into the apartment by the side door, which was closed but not locked, as she said before. She noticed that the door to her children's bedroom was completely open, the window was also open, the shutters raised and the curtains open, while she was certain of having closed them all as she always did. So, it's perfectly clear, she's claiming the intruder opened them.
Ex-Det. Superindentent Peter MacLeod covers both parents differing versions about jemmied, smashed and whatever else shutters, curtains, which door they used to get into the apt. etc in his excellent book.
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Page 8
Changes to the original story
Changing the initial version of events, especially concerning a report of a missing child, is a classic ‘red flag’ warning to police investigators to query both, or all, versions of events in great detail................
Page 11
Second change of story
This concerns the point of entry of Gerry and Kate into the apartment........
Page 20
Kate's claim that the door slammed, and when she went in
the curtains “Whooshed” open.


GM claimed to have immediately closed the shutter and window when he got back to the apartment. If they had been open add that to theirs and the groups many scene contaminations before the police arrived. He claimed he then went outside and opened and closed the shutter. The only finger prints on either side of the window were KM's and his weren't found anywhere on the shutter either. There wasn't any forensic evidence of footprints on the bed under the window which had to be stood on to enter or exit the room. There wasn't any forensic evidence of an intruder in the bedroom on the window or it's frame and shutter. Nor was their any DNA evidence of Maddie anywhere in the apartment, let alone in her bed, on her pillowcase, blanket or cuddle cat. GM flew back to the UK to get one of her pillowcase from home to provide her DNA for the police??
GM statement
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/GERRY-MCCANN.htm

At about 22.00 it was his wife Kate who went to check on the children. She entered the apartment by the door using the key and saw immediately that the door to the children's bedroom was completely open, the window was also open, the blinds were raised and the curtains were drawn open
Then she runs off without checking her twins haven't been hurt by her peadophile and leaves them sleeping in the room with an open window and shutter and in the unlocked apartment again. Another example of perfectly normal behaviour under the supposed circumstances.
As for her peadophile drugging the twins and them all ignoring that fact all night, that too beggars belief.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Do any of you lot have any examples of a similar situation, where "murderers" have kept them selves in the public eye for 10 years and have subsequently being found guilty?

[Vanessa]

There are a lot of things that don't make sense in this case. I don't believe for a second the McCanns murdered their daughter on purpose. I think it was an accident that they covered up. All evidence point at Maddie sadly dying in that flat on that sunday. I wish things were different, but i don't hold much hope.

[user104658]

Do any of you lot have any examples of a similar situation, where "murderers" have kept them selves in the public eye for 10 years and have subsequently being found guilty?
Do you have an example of any other missing child case that has been in the public eye for 10 years and generated literally millions of pounds, and gained massive political interest?

We all know that the McCann case is unique and strange no matter which way you slice it. I'm not sure what you're trying to illustrate here.

[Crimson Dynamo]

There are a lot of things that don't make sense in this case. I don't believe for a second the McCanns murdered their daughter on purpose. I think it was an accident that they covered up. All evidence point at Maddie sadly dying in that flat on that sunday. I wish things were different, but i don't hold much hope.

and they covered it up why?

how did she die

[Vanessa]

and they covered it up why?

how did she die

Not sure. Maybe she went out looking for her parents and fell?

[ebandit]

.................all those crazy conspiracy theories...................

yet? observers are ready to accept that maddie could fall and just 'die'

kiddies are like weebles ............they fall..............and get up again.........

Mark L

[Jamie89]

Yeah look I was the same until I really started reading up on it, it isnt nice to think they were involved (not that I think they actually killed her but more likely covered up her death) but it does seem to point to that

Yes..that was unfortunate to pin their hopes on, given Eugene Zapata later confessed to murder, admitted the body was were the dogs indicated.

I mean, its been reported so many times that the squad working on this case from Scotland Yard is the homicide squad. Not missing persons or something, homicide. Why on earth would that be? The intruder killing her is impossible given the claimed checking routine. As the body would have to be there for (I believe it is) 90 mins...

I've been reading more about it and I think I'm changing my opinion on it tbh. The thing I can't get my head around though is why they've maintained such a prominent public profile, sure it's something they'd do at the beginning to avert suspicion but not still after 10 years? Because if they had anything to do with what happened to her, or covered up an accident, and have been lying about it, surely the last thing you'd want is to stay in the public eye and have people questioning every action you take, and you'd be so distraught by what you'd done you'd want to do everything possible to try and forget it, not have constant and unnecessary reminders. I think the only way it would be possible for the cover up theory to be true is if they weren't distraught by what they'd done, but surely you'd have to have something seriously mentally wrong with you for that to be the case since it involves disposing of their childs body. It's just unimaginable. And I suppose there could be something seriously mentally wrong with them, but then that's also a big assumption to make so I don't know if I really believe it. Unless they're psychopaths I can't imagine anything other than them believing her to have gone missing would be correct... but then yeah there's a lot more evidence than I'd realised before so I'm not really sure what I think. I intend to read Amarals book though (I think I saw the link posted in this thread).

[Vicky.]

Personally, I think its arrogance. That plus wanting the fund gravy train to continue. Mind they may well disappear after the next court case as I don't think many will donate to the fund anymore given its now being actually reported in the rags that they are spending it on everything but searching. Would be a fool to donate now.

[user104658]

and they covered it up why?

how did she die

Because they were probably doping them LT. If you don't think that's realistic, you're sheltered. If you don't understand why they would cover it up, then you should look into the murky legal waters of using meds off-label, especially as a doctor.

[user104658]

I've been reading more about it and I think I'm changing my opinion on it tbh. The thing I can't get my head around though is why they've maintained such a prominent public profile, sure it's something they'd do at the beginning to avert suspicion but not still after 10 years? Because if they had anything to do with what happened to her, or covered up an accident, and have been lying about it, surely the last thing you'd want is to stay in the public eye and have people questioning every action you take, and you'd be so distraught by what you'd done you'd want to do everything possible to try and forget it, not have constant and unnecessary reminders.

In my opinion it got away from them more than thy expected it to, they probably did plan to let it all die down and be forgotten, but it got so HUGE so quickly. After a while they really had no option but to keep going with it, because if they slow down or stop, it will all start to catch up with them. I think it will eventually, anyway. They have relied heavily on having the UK press on side and it's slipping now.

[Niamh.]

I've been reading more about it and I think I'm changing my opinion on it tbh. The thing I can't get my head around though is why they've maintained such a prominent public profile, sure it's something they'd do at the beginning to avert suspicion but not still after 10 years? Because if they had anything to do with what happened to her, or covered up an accident, and have been lying about it, surely the last thing you'd want is to stay in the public eye and have people questioning every action you take, and you'd be so distraught by what you'd done you'd want to do everything possible to try and forget it, not have constant and unnecessary reminders. I think the only way it would be possible for the cover up theory to be true is if they weren't distraught by what they'd done, but surely you'd have to have something seriously mentally wrong with you for that to be the case since it involves disposing of their childs body. It's just unimaginable. And I suppose there could be something seriously mentally wrong with them, but then that's also a big assumption to make so I don't know if I really believe it. Unless they're psychopaths I can't imagine anything other than them believing her to have gone missing would be correct... but then yeah there's a lot more evidence than I'd realised before so I'm not really sure what I think. I intend to read Amarals book though (I think I saw the link posted in this thread).
Yeah I posted the link to his book in the thread, you should read it, its pretty much him just giving the facts of the investigation, nothing sensationalised or anything

[the truth]

she admitted madeline was incredibly difficult to manage she was screaming and shouting 18 hrs a day

Kate McCann has told of how Madeleine cried for 18 hours a day as a baby and demanded constant attention when her twin brother and sister were born.
In an interview with a Portuguese magazine, the 39-year-old GP is reported to have discussed her daughter suffering from colic and how, at 20 months old, she reacted to the birth of twins Sean and Ameli

In it, she spoke openly about her experiences in being a mother to Madeleine, candidly admitting that the first six months with her were "very difficult".

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In it, she spoke openly about her experiences in being a mother to Madeleine, candidly admitting that the first six months with her were "very difficult".
She explained that Madeleine frequently suffered from colic as a baby and, as a toddler, demanded a lot of attention after the birth of the twins.
"She cried practically for 18 hours a day," she said. "I had to carry her around permanently.


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In the interview, Mrs McCann insisted that she and her husband were "truly responsible parents" and had committed no crime.
Speaking of the night Madeleine disappeared, she said: "I was sure immediately that she didn't walk out of that room.
"I never doubted that she had been taken by someone.
"I went through a phase of guilt for not knowing what happened to her. I blamed myself for thinking that the place was safe.
"But the certainty that we are truly responsible parents has helped me carry on.
"I know that what happened is not due to the fact of us leaving the children asleep. I know it happened under other circumstances."
Asked about whether the decision to leave them meant she and her husband were responsible for their daughter's disappearance, she said: "It cannot be considered a crime.
"Someone committed one, but not us."


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[Marsh.]

Maddie suffered with colic as a baby, like a LOT of babies.

What the frig does that have to do with anything?

[ebandit]

....charge them...............keep them apart and see how quickly one blames the other

Mark L

[anne666]

Personally, I think its arrogance. That plus wanting the fund gravy train to continue. Mind they may well disappear after the next court case as I don't think many will donate to the fund anymore given its now being actually reported in the rags that they are spending it on everything but searching. Would be a fool to donate now.

Oh yes, without doubt they've displayed a huge amount of arrogance and coupled with their own attitudes they quickly turned the Portuguese against them. The area was ruined by their full on and endless shameful media circus. The residents in that area, many of whom had relentlessly searched for a supposedly missing Maddie, were harassed and over time many of them eventually lost their livelihoods.
I think if they hadn't been made arguidos they might well have let it lie sooner. That status threw them right into what they'd tried so hard and gone to such incredulous lengths to avoid. Regardless of their years long lies to the contrary, they've never actually been cleared of involvement.
Since then all they've done in the main is use public donations to defend their reputation and carried on digging an even deeper hole of culpability.
Their countless interviews over 10 years have basically all been the same. Self defensive, re-telling of a few versions of the night and what good parents they really are, ie their children weren't neglected, endangered or (they thought) drugged (enough) to make them sleep.

Their immediate wholly inappropriate actions and in-actions weren't known about in full until the PJ files were released. How many people actually knew about them? In the meantime the McCann's instantly promoted sob story has carried on. Covering their own backs was the only priority for the McCanns and the group and that's how it's remained.
Instead of getting out and searching for their supposedly missing 3 year old helpless child, they instigated an overnight media circus. Based on lies and their own and still totally unproven claims and against police advice.
With the deceit of their caring parents role and innocent victims of their instantly decided upon, peadophile abductor.
Their inordinately dangerous advertising of Maddie's eye coloboma against police advice didn't matter either, they knew where she was.
It isn't surprising they were eventually made arguidos after 4 months.
For anyone who read the PJ files, even less so, after they finally revealed a lot of truths. Plus the fact that they'd only escaped arrest at the time because of Portuguese law re the UK Cadaver and Blood dog's findings.
Among the medicines they'd taken with them on holiday and listed in their statements, were Calpol and anti-histamines.
The fiction about an abductor drugging the three children was an arrogant absurdity. Something which could have got them all into more trouble by medically neglecting and endangering the twins. Just something else they lied about. It's also another incidence of their messing around with the police and refusal to cooperate, by not having the twins drug tested during the appropriate time span.
Page 92, Sedation.
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Apart from constantly repeating their claims of their on-going and in reality, virtually non-existent search for Madeleine, from the outset this has mainly been about themselves, including in their police statements.
Three drugged children, neglected and endangered by their parents every night and one of them died accidentally. The consequences were pretty serious for them and their two other children and even more so in Portugal. His words.... If Maddie had an accident when we were out how would it be our fault, it would be a situation she found herself in. Chilling!
Although I have little sympathy for KM I think she's has borne the brunt of Maddie's death and the consequences far more than he's capable of.
I think she was far more likely to want to do the right thing, but all she's ever demonstrated is how she's only able to do as she's told for whatever her reasons are. Even her hard earned medical career has since been ditched. Has his?
The reason the taxpaying public have been exploited for years on end by their inordinate amount of protection from TPTB and the case funded by over £12 million is hardly rocket science either.

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she admitted madeline was incredibly difficult to manage she was screaming and shouting 18 hrs a day

Kate McCann has told of how Madeleine cried for 18 hours a day as a baby and demanded constant attention when her twin brother and sister were born.
In an interview with a Portuguese magazine, the 39-year-old GP is reported to have discussed her daughter suffering from colic and how, at 20 months old, she reacted to the birth of twins Sean and Ameli

In it, she spoke openly about her experiences in being a mother to Madeleine, candidly admitting that the first six months with her were "very difficult".

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In it, she spoke openly about her experiences in being a mother to Madeleine, candidly admitting that the first six months with her were "very difficult".
She explained that Madeleine frequently suffered from colic as a baby and, as a toddler, demanded a lot of attention after the birth of the twins.
"She cried practically for 18 hours a day," she said. "I had to carry her around permanently.


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In the interview, Mrs McCann insisted that she and her husband were "truly responsible parents" and had committed no crime.
Speaking of the night Madeleine disappeared, she said: "I was sure immediately that she didn't walk out of that room.
"I never doubted that she had been taken by someone.
"I went through a phase of guilt for not knowing what happened to her. I blamed myself for thinking that the place was safe.
"But the certainty that we are truly responsible parents has helped me carry on.
"I know that what happened is not due to the fact of us leaving the children asleep. I know it happened under other circumstances."
Asked about whether the decision to leave them meant she and her husband were responsible for their daughter's disappearance, she said: "It cannot be considered a crime.
"Someone committed one, but not us."


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That is just something else, the bit I have bolded, from the many bits I have read on this case, that doesn't hold well with me. Surely a majority of parents whether somehow to blame or not, would automatically blame themselves anyway, a natural reaction, yet not those two, far from it.

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I'm with LT on this one :worry: I haven't read this particular thread because I find the McCann discussions a bit exhausting tbh, and it's not that I don't think there's a possibility they could have been involved, there is just as there are numerous possibilities. But there's no actual evidence that they had anything to do with it, just things that look kinda dodgy, but nothing that would equate them to being child killers. Yes some scenarios that get suggested sound very unlikely, but then the scenario of parents killing their own child or covering up their child's death is also something that's extremely unlikely, so I never understand the 'well that's too unlikely, they must have been involved' argument towards what I think are plausible scenarios. So since noone really knows what happened that night I don't know why, of all the possibilities, that so many people seem so convinced that the McCanns played a part in it. I can't help but think that maybe it's because it makes it more sensationalist and more of an interesting story? I don't really get it tbh.

Maddies death scent was on Kates clothes,in apartment, in garden and hire car

[chuff me dizzy]

In my opinion it got away from them more than thy expected it to, they probably did plan to let it all die down and be forgotten, but it got so HUGE so quickly. After a while they really had no option but to keep going with it, because if they slow down or stop, it will all start to catch up with them. I think it will eventually, anyway. They have relied heavily on having the UK press on side and it's slipping now.

Without the internet they would have got away with it, but far too many people fighting everyday for Maddie, its people in groups, forums and Twitter that have kept this case alive, not the Mcs, they want it all to die down and go away,but it wont happen

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I would say that there is something in the system that is protecting them, think about it, why would social services not take the rest of there children into care, when the proof was that they went out on the pi'', and left there children alone, why, because they are in respectable jobs and are not a chav family who live in a council estate that is a dump, the British police force where more interested in messing up the investigation that the Portuguese police had done, and ten years on, the Portuguese detectives where more right than wrong, now is there a huge cover up that goes to the top, yes,