[Jords]

I saw a book on Maddie in a shop window today :S

[Kerry]

This thread proves exactly why they should keep their faces in the media. We're all talking about Maddy and therefore she's refreshed in our minds. Good or bad press, they won't care. We're all talking/thinking of Madeleine

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Sticks

So will the Met make Kate answer the 40 questions she refused to answer when put by the Portuguese Police?


They know who they are

Please, that 20/40 question bollox is adolescent Internet conspiracy theory claptrap

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by ~Kerry~

This thread proves exactly why they should keep their faces in the media. We're all talking about Maddy and therefore she's refreshed in our minds. Good or bad press, they won't care. We're all talking/thinking of Madeleine

We don't know what happened really, there are many unanswered questions and maybe we will never find out what happened that night or to Madeline.

I have changed my mind over the last few days though,I understand the need for keeping it in the public domain now.
As you say Kerry, even on here we are all talking about it so I hope some good does come of all the new publicity.

[Angus]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Please, that 20/40 question bollox is adolescent Internet conspiracy theory claptrap

I couldn't have put it better myself

[arista]

Originally Posted by ~Kerry~

This thread proves exactly why they should keep their faces in the media. We're all talking about Maddy and therefore she's refreshed in our minds. Good or bad press, they won't care. We're all talking/thinking of Madeleine

They have had there week
in the Media
Now they can go away Unless
they have some real news.


Her book can go to the 99p store
since it is well over stocked.




Sign Of The Times.

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Please, that 20/40 question bollox is adolescent Internet conspiracy theory claptrap

Originally Posted by angus58

I couldn't have put it better myself

Taking it you both have inside knowledge of this case then.

Not saying it is true, but noone can know either way. Unless you are pretty high up in the police force, which I highly doubt either of you are.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Taking it you both have inside knowledge of this case then.

Not saying it is true, but noone can know either way. Unless you are pretty high up in the police force, which I highly doubt either of you are.

Age and experience is what you are searching for

[Benjamin]

Madeleine McCann: Police 'looking at eight important new leads'


Scotland Yard detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are examining eight "important" new leads, it was claimed yesterday.

Spanish private investigators have handed over 30 boxes of documents which could yield a breakthrough.

On Tuesday, four British officers visited the Barcelona HQ of Metodo 3, the detective agency employed to look for Madeleine by her parents Kate and Gerry for six months after she vanished at the age of three in 2007.

The agency's director, Francisco Marco, said there were "six, seven or eight very important leads" within the files.

But sources close to the British investigation played down the significance of the material yesterday.

It is the second time that Metropolitan Police detectives have flown to Spain as part of their review of her disappearance. Last month they spent three days with the Spanish National Police and Civil Guard force as part of inquiries into whether she was abducted and smuggled across the border from Portugal.


British detectives have also recently collected documents from the Portuguese police, Leicestershire police and the McCanns.

Yesterday Mr Marco said on Spanish TV: "We have provided [British police] with all the documents and information we have collated worldwide about Madeleine's disappearance." He told The Ana Rosa Programme: "[The leads] were passed at the time to Portuguese police who ignored them because it was a very politicised issue."

Madeleine, of Rothley in Leicestershire, disappeared from her parents' holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on the Algarve in Portugal in May 2007.

Her parents hired Metodo 3 to find her four months after she vanished.

The agency sent a team to Morocco to follow leads that she might have been smuggled out of Portugal.

Mr Marco said he still believed that was "very possibly" what happened to her but he refused to give more details.

The files taken by Scotland Yard include investigations the agency carried out into Raymond Hewlett, a convicted British paedophile who was in Portugal when Madeleine went missing and left for Morocco three weeks later.

Hewlett died of throat cancer aged 64 in Germany last year having refused to talk to detectives about Madeleine's disappearance.

Prime Minister David Cameron asked the Met to examine Madeleine's case in May. Operation Grange, led by Detective Chief Inspector John Redwood, will consider whether there are any grounds for the Portuguese police to re-open their original inquiry, which was shelved in 2008.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police refused to comment yesterday. The McCann family also declined to comment.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news...ectid=10773406

[Ramsay]

Give it up

[Sticks]

For legal reasons we have to keep stum

[letmein]

She's no longer alive. The parents did it. I said it from the start.

[Mystic Mock]

Hopefully she is still alive and will be found.

[Kazanne]

It's quite simple really,IF they had not gone out and left the children alone,Madeleine would not have gone missing,I am really on two sides of this story,while ,I feel very sorry for them ,on the other hand they were neglectful and should have been treated like any other parent who leaves their kids home alone,something with this case does not sit right and I'm not sure what it is.and I know people react differently but their reaction when she first went missing was strange to say the least,they seemed to want everyone else out searching for her but didn't seem to do much themselves,it's all very sad especially for Madeliene,I hope this does get solved one day.

[InOne]

Would this case have got so much attention if the parents weren't white and middle class?

[Sticks]

Originally Posted by letmein

She's no longer alive. The parents did it. I said it from the start.

Be careful lest Team Mccan sue you for libel and shut down TIBB

[Beastie]

Originally Posted by Scrooge

Would this case have got so much attention if the parents weren't white and middle class?

Probably not. However the parents are both doctors. Too much scum in this country and we need as many high class people like doctors as we can than all these benefit scroungers we are getting. The country is running into a **** hole and we need to keep as many quality, educated people as we can. Who knows.. Maddy could have done so much in her life. She could have been a doctor or done something worth while.

Anyway I just want to know what has happened to the girl. I still find it weird how the parents could have done it. Would they really be that sadistic? Do you think they are shaking and crumbling every night because they know they accidently killed her!

[Z]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23179230

Scotland Yard says it has "new evidence and new theories" in the Madeleine McCann case as it opens a formal investigation into her disappearance.

[Z]

Most importantly, they seem quite convinced of the possibility she's still alive... and it must take a lot of strong evidence for them to say they think there's a chance she's still alive; they don't normally make statements like that if they think they could be proven wrong 'cause it reflects badly on them and they could be sued, I think? I know that's the case with doctors making diagnoses but I don't know if that's true of the police too... either way, they seem positive she's out there. I wonder if they'll find her?

[Kizzy]

I really hope they do.

[Nedusa]

Originally Posted by Wasted

If the parents were more sensible and didn't take it for granted that their children were perfectly safe, then Madeline never would have disappeared. So the parents are to blame because they left their children alone, and unsupervised. I'm not being mean, but that was a seriously idiotic thing to do. Anything could've happened, and it did.

I just hope that now, Madeline will be found safe and sound, because that's the important thing.

If you are saying that she was only taken because they left her alone that night and that had they stayed in with her she would not have been taken , then I think we need to think this through a bit more.

So that night in the resort an opportunist Paedophile just happened to be walking past the McCann's apartment when he saw an opportunity to snatch a young child, isn't it more likely they were deliberately targeted and Madeleine would have been snatched at some point regardless of the actions of that night. So the McCann's never stood a chance as they had no idea she was in danger and at some point they would have found an opportunity to get her.

[Nedusa]

Originally Posted by Sticks

Be careful lest Team Mccan sue you for libel and shut down TIBB

Yes it's quite plausible they accidentally killed her and came up with the disappearance story whilst they were in shock, but the whole story combined with the World's Press and Media became too big and they let the story take over. They may now never admit to what really happened that fateful night...!!!

[Sticks]

Originally Posted by Zee

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23179230

This bit has me going huh?

Detectives say Madeleine's parents, the friends the McCanns were with in Portugal and people known to the family before they went away are not suspects or people they need to investigate.

Surely they should be number one suspects?

Especially as there were quite a number of questions, (42?) that Kate and Gerry refused to answer. Were they trying to hide something?

[CaudleHalbard]

Originally Posted by Sticks

Surely they should be number one suspects?

Especially as there were quite a number of questions, (42?) that Kate and Gerry refused to answer. Were they trying to hide something?

Quite so. It has the smell of a whitewash.

[Marcus.]

aye i just read this on sky news awwwwwwww