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Originally Posted by Livia

It must be bad enough having to live for four years knowing some disgusting pervert took your child, of wondering if she's still alive or of what kind of horrors she faced before she was murdered. It must be made even harder when people who really know nothing about the case but have read something on Wikipedia or scanned an article in tabloids and consequently decided that the couple are guilty.

To see the outrageous comments made on here makes me worry about the future of trial by jury if this is how some people really think.

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I think people underestimate how seriously the relevant authorities take cases like this. Apart from anything else, the Portugese would be absolutely cacking themselves that such an incident would deter holidaymakers and therefore lose them millions and jobs etc

Which means they would have been extremely thorough in their investigations. Reading some people on here you'd think the investigation was run by monkeys who didnt spot glaring evidence. They look at every detail and consider all possibilities. Fact is, they just didnt have any evidence to even take the McCanns to trial. Saying they refused to answer certain questions means nothing without knowing what the questions actually were.