[jet]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

They used money raised for the purposes of finding their missing daughter to make mortgage payments on their house. That's not normal IMO.

An alternative is if their careers were neglected because they were devoting most to their time to finding Maddie, I guess bills still need to be paid.
I don't know a lot about the case, and at the moment I'm just trying to work out in my head what I think about it.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by jet

their careers were neglected

An unfortunate turn of phrase.

[Denver]

Originally Posted by jet

An alternative is if their careers were neglected because they were devoting most to their time to finding Maddie, I guess bills still need to be paid.
I don't know a lot about the case, and at the moment I'm just trying to work out in my head what I think about it.

You dont use charity money to pay your bills off end of

[jet]

I posted this in the other thread but this one is more active and I'd like some feedback on this:

I haven't read it so thanks for the link Niamh.
I don't know as much as most here seem to about the case, but what puzzles me is if the McCanns are guilty, why would they not just let the case fizzle out years ago and get on with their lives having got off scot free? Why would they continually bring attention to it over and over, year after year and rake it all up yet again trying to sue the books author?
It's not as if they were hard up for the money they could make out of it; and they seem too astute and intelligent not to realise they would be accused of doing it just for attention. I just don't get what their aim is in keeping the case alive and in the news for all these years if they are guilty with the much increased chance of being caught out which those actions would bring...