what Cameron helping them as a young father hinself?

Blair and Brown as you are well aware

Helping them find their child who was abducted is bad?

We can only hope she had a fab 18th. Luckily she will have long forgotten the neglectful parents.

Just because no criminal charges were ever brought, doesn't change the fact that at best, their behaviour was woefully negligent and as a discussion forum we are allowed to share those opinions without you trying to shut them down because the police didn't bring charges.. I asked before, but would you have left you children under the age of 4 alone whilst you went out? I can hand on heart say, I never would. I still wouldn't and he's nearly 11.

The Portuguese police that it was suspicious too

Insufficient evidence to pursue conviction is not proof of innocence.

I don't know whether they did or did not have something to do with what happened to Maddie (aside from neglecting her) but their actions both before and after her disappearance were weird and suspicious.

What makes it worse is all their children were left alone, babies soo very young. At those ages they need supervision 24/7. I'm baffled how they could ever think that was a good idea.

What gets me is that if it was a couple from a council estate leaving their kids alone so they could go on nights out and something like this happened, they would without a doubt have the other kids taken away because of the severe negligence, I’m not quite sure why people are to this day, still pretending like the pair of them are good parents?

what actual evidence are you basing that on?

Like I said if they were not white middle class ,I'm pretty sure they would have been in serious hot water with the negligence. I don't understand how people can defend them.

You want evidence of parents having their kids taken away for neglecting them?

Awful. Remember everyone talking about her the day after she vanished when I was in Sixth Form. Seems like only a few years ago. Time flies.

Like, even if they didn’t directly kill her, which there are a lot of people including myself that are suspicious they did, they still indirectly killed her due to negligence and if they didn’t have the connections/white privilege they would’ve saw consequences instead of all of this sympathy, platform, resources and money.

Wasnt there an Irish couple that claimed to see a guy carrying a girl that looked like Maddie at the time of her disappearance at the hotel then later claimed that the man they saw was Gerry?

I have yet to see anyone call them or see them as good parents...

But excuses are still being made for them, despite the McCann's behaviour being suspicious and worrying.

i think LT is in love with Kate, which is why we always get these threads from him from time to time

Yep, they had a drawing made up of him down to the trousers that matched a pair Gerry had with buttons down the sides and then later when they saw Gerry on TV called the Police and said it was definitely Gerry they saw that night

Sorry, but Kate has always loved the attention she’s gotten from this

Its not excuses though...just because one person sees their behaviour as 'suspicious' doesnt mean everyone does. There could be a perfectly good reason why they did things the way they did.
At the end of the day the decision they made cost them their daughters life and will haunt them for the remainder of theirs.

I disagree. She was hated for leaving her children unattended... Most people would just want to curl up and die. Keeping themselves in the public eye kept the momentum going.

I don’t think they did it, they were negligent though, I remember when our first son was born taking him to a hotel. We left him sleeping, went downstairs with the baby monitor to the bar, after 10 minutes neither of us could settle and were convinced the monitor wasn’t working, so Mr C went back up and made noise, it was, but it just didn’t feel right so that was that, back upstairs :laugh: No way could I have gone for a full meal with an open door and a swimming pool in between where the kids were sleeping and we were

Yeah the Pool would have always been my first fear in that situation(and I would have thought in most other parents too) which was why i thought it was odd that her first thought was that someone (actually more than one person because she said "they" ) had kidnapped her