Madeline Mccann

[Ann]

New leads apparently ......
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2326108/Madeleine-McCann-Scotland-Yard-hands-list-naming-people-Portuguese-police.html

[naomi24]

//to the McCann's negligence, their guilt etc must be a very heavy burden to bear and a punishment in its own right.//

I agree DT. I don't think they'll ever forgive themselves. I know wouldn't. I can't imagine what they must be feeling. How sad it all is.

[Brinjal]

I have been guilty of doing what the McCann s did. We left our kids in the room on holiday while we went to the dining room. They didn't want to go to the kids club at the resort so we said stay here and off we went. Not once but a couple of times. Wouldn't do it now or recommend it but back then figured it would be ok. Popped back to check on them luckily they were fine. Sadly maddie wasn't.

[naomi24]

Brinjal, I think a lot of people do it, but after this perhaps not so many.

[EDDIE51]

I have always believed that the Portuguese police were at best very incompetent in the original investigation. Now they will not allow any further investigation by the British police as they know it will make them look far worse than they already do.

[Brinjal]

Agreed eddie

[EDDIE51]

Anyone who went to Butlins or another one of the big holiday camps back in the 60s to the 80s will possibly remember the 'chalet patrols' . This was a system where staff walked round the chalets listening out for children crying. Then an announcement would come over the PA in the club room ''Baby crying in chalet 56'' or what ever one it was. The idea was that you left the kids in the room and went down to the club bar.
As I understand it the McCann's were sitting outside the restaurant just 50 yd or so away from and in sight of the front of the room the child was in. Unfortunately there was a rear entrance as well which is where the kidnapper got in. With hindsight that was careless but I do not see it as negligent . Many of us would have done the same at that time.

[1ndex]

A child can be snatched anywhere, even from home, by a determined kidnapper.

[ummmm]

Eddie...I remember that. My mum and dad left us under that baby sitting scheme.

It's very sad and I can't say I blame the parents. A surgeon and a GP who probably weren't living in the same world that the majority live in. It was misguided judgement, not neglect. You can't say someone neglects their children by the actions of one evening on holiday.

[anneasquith]

I may be wrong, but I believe it was not on one occasion the adults had eaten at that restaurant, with the adults taking turns to check on the children,,,,,,,,,,,

[DTCwordfan]

,,,,,,,,and my suspicion is that the kidnappers knew the pattern. Pure speculation though. ummmm is right - one or two times and such compacency does not equate to negligence.

[DTCwordfan]

complacency.....tut

[ummmm]

Even so, Anne, they were on holiday and got complacent.

I'm sure they never left their children unattended at home. They were in a holiday resort presumably surrounded by families and like minded people. No one would dream there was a kidnapper near by.

[viv38]

I don't blame the McCanns at all. Every time I see Kate on the TV, I notice her haunted eyes. At the time I thought they were wrong to leave such small children alone and did blame them to some extent, but as the years have gone on I've changed my view. Sadly, I don't think Madeliene is still alive, but I'd love to be wrong.

[society]

Where are all these people who claimed they are psychics or clairvoyant? Can't they produce some valid clues to the whereabouts of this innocent child?

[gina32]

I knew of someone who was one of the nicest people you could meet but they were done for murder! just because they "seem nice" doesn't mean a thing

[March-Hare]

Seriously ...... do folk really go on a family holiday and go out to dinner leaving part of the family (minors) home alone in a room or apartment?? Seriously?? OMG!!! I really didn't think anyone would be so stupid? Would they do it in the UK??? If they did and they were discovered they would be prosecuted!!