[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Smithy

I find some of the theories hard to believe, such as the friends helping them cover up her death why?), or pretending their friends daughter was maddie (again, why? Surely someone would have still noticed there was another little blonde girl missing)

But reading through these threads has definitely made me a lot more suspicious to what actually happened

I can believe some of the friends helped coverup...reasons...they were ALL sedating the kids.

However I don't believe the friends knew what happened tbh. Maybe with the exception of David Payne (something dodgy here..he was the last person besides the parents to claim to see Madeleine. he claims he was there for 15 mins, kate claims he was only there 15 seconds and didnt see the kids :S)

I think the friends lied about the checking. I think they all sedated the kids and then just left them. Then when Madeleine was 'discovered missing' they all panicked and agreed to pretend they had been checking on the kids as otherwise they could get in serious trouble for being such selfish neglectful arseholes.

I believe Russel might know a little more about the story, given the McCanns tried to get him to be the last person to 'see' Madeleine, but he appeared to click onto this so said that he never actually 'saw' her he just listened at the door.

So many questions...

But yeah, I don't believe ALL of the friends covered up, but I do think there is a possibility some helped. And I think the checking timeline was completely fabricated (which would also explain the ridiculous decision to sit writing out a checking timeline instead of actually going out to look for the child...covering arses)