Time To Stop Perhaps?

[cassa333]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43550383

It has been ten years and as far as I'm aware not a single bit of hard evidence has come to light.

Other investigations such as the bloke not in the landfill!! has been ended. Surely enough time has been spent on this one child and the McCann family should get on with their lives without this very big reminder.

They will never forget her but this constant attention just amplifies emotions that would have faded to 'normal' grief and loss.

[jackthehat]

As an outside observer that may seem to be the answer. As a parent of a missing child it obviously isn't.

I thought I'd post early before the judgemental and accusatory exchanges begin....

[Sqad]

Ridiculous......this case may well have set a precedent for future similar cases.
Would the father being a consultant cardiologist and mother being a medical practitioner, have anything to do with it?
If he had been on the dole or a mere artisan, would the finance still be available? I doubt it.

[NoMercy]

As long as there are significant lines of enquiry they should pursue them. To ignore them would be an injustice to Madeleine.

[jackthehat]

Why stop there, spath?
You could provide numerous links to the times this question (or similar) has been asked over the years..

[EDDIE51]

Any hope of a successful investigation was lost immediately due to the incompetence of the Portuguese police. They failed to secure the crime scene and allowed the press and media to roam around the scene without supervision,and even possibly to remove evidence. They failed to act on reports from several witnesses who gave evidence of having seen Maddie with a man who was acting suspiciously, after the time she was supposed to have disappeared .

[-Talbot-]

I've stopped posting my opinions on these threads... but my opinions have not changed one iota.

[anneasquith]

Here we go again, I doubt many of us have changed our views since last discussed.

[tamborine]

Carry on if only to hilite the corrupt portugese police - sue for more so Portugal fund the search

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/Supreme_Court_31_01_2017.htm

[Old_Geezer]

A parent of a missing child will want a search to continue forever, stopping only if the child is found. Emotionally uninvolved individuals should take a more rational viewpoint and know when further active investigation ceases to be sensible. But not, apparently.

[jackthehat]

It's rarely helpful to throw comparisons (especially when they don't compare) into the mix.

This topic, in particular, always generates bad-temper and accusations, it doesn't need any fuel adding from 'other' insoluble world issues.

[anotheoldgit]

Should have been stopped and filed in the 'Cold case' files, a few years ago.

[jackthehat]

Comparisons which compare generally are.......ones which don't, aren't.

[Voltage]

Time To Stop Perhaps?

[jackthehat]

Corrie Mckeague may have parents, but he is hardly a child......

And the circumstances of his disappearance differ greatly, too.