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Originally Posted by longstar

lets look at the death of stuart lubbock in barrymore's house, it is said that he died before he was floating in the pool and also why where there injuries to stuart's anal, the police said that stuart suffered a violent sexual assault before he died, and he did not drown, and they said that he was thrown into that pool, the police knew that it was now a murder case, but they just dropped it, and all the fingers are pointed at barrymore, when there was a number of people in that house, so there was a mix of cover ups and blundering from the force, now the portuguese police where very close in getting the mccann parents to confess in what they know in what happened to maddie, then are police force flew to portugal and just said that the portuguese force where wrong, that proved that are force just did another cover up and blundering, but one thing that does stick out there is that why is scotland yard protecting the mccanns, there was a guy who had written a book in what really happened to maddie, and they jailed him, why, to shut him up from telling the truth, it seems a bit strange that the police can't tell in what happened in barrymore house and even in what happened to maddie, but they easily knew in what happened to shannon mathews and quickly knew that mick philpott killed his kids, look at ben needham, never once did his family get any support from the government or the police, why because he is from a working class background, you have to be from a middle or upper class background and have a respected job and be rich and famous to think you are good as gold in that life, if the mccann parents where living on a council estate, and not working, they would have there children taken from them, not once did social services try and have there children taken from them.

It's not often I agree with one of your posts, but there's always an exception to the rule

I've shared this a few times before but it's worth doing so again. Owen Jones dedicates a whole chapter of Chavs to the Maddie case (or rather, a comparison of attitudes towards her's and the Shannon Matthews one), and it's a striking example of how class relations are implicit in both the responses to similar stories such as these, and also in their treatment by the authorities. Capitalism has a lot to answer for:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...page&q&f=false

'Why Madeleine? Some commentators were remarkably honest about why, of all the injustices in the world, it was the tragedy of this one little girl that provoked such anguish. 'This kind of thing doesn't usually happen to people like us', lamented Allison Pearson in the Daily Mail. What Pearson meant by people like her was people from comfortable, middle-class backgrounds. Kidnappings, stabbings, murders; those are things you almost expected to happen to people living in Peckham or Glasgow. This sort of tragedy was not supposed to happen to folks you might bump into doing the weekly shop at Waitrose'. (2011, pp. 14-15)