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Madeleine McCann - new suspect

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KatherineJaneway · 03/06/2020 19:24

A 43-year-old German prisoner who travelled around Portugal in a camper van is now the focus of Scotland Yard's investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52914016]

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Bridgedesigner · 04/06/2020 21:46

Ad infinitum.

NotTheOnlyPomInTheVillage · 04/06/2020 22:04

If the parents hadn't left Madeline and the twins alone, this wouldn't have happened, how hard is that to understand?

The majority of abducted children were left alone, usually outside of the family home. Do you say the same about the other parents of missing children? No, I thought not.

QuentinWinters · 04/06/2020 22:08

I never understood how the parents avoided charges of neglect. What they did was wrong.
Yes agree. A not quite 3yo and 2x 1yo? I'd not be able to do that, not because of abduction but because I'd think they'd be highly likely to wake up and be distraught, wander off, hurt themselves who knows.
I don't know anyone who would do that l, lots of people say it happens but I've never met anyone who would

SouthWestmom · 04/06/2020 22:14

Oh my god what is it with this bleating of 'I'd never do that?' This whole thread, peppered with little parrots wittering away about a decision that is hypothetical to them and no one cares if they would/wouldn't. Carry on with your bloody smugness that this will never happen to you and but do it somewhere else fgs.

MrsNoah2020 · 04/06/2020 22:17

If they were that sleep deprived then he shouldn't have damn well been performing surgery

As he isn't a surgeon, I don't imagine that was an issue.

Destroyedpeople · 04/06/2020 22:17

Yes it's all been said a million times and everyone piling in and saying smugly 'well I would never do that' is immaterial and irrelevant.

JudyCoolibar · 04/06/2020 22:17

Yet again, why on earth do people feel the need to come on here to make smug comments on how they wouldn't have made the same parenting decisions. How hard is it to understand that practices change, and that anyway it simply contributes zero to the debate to make a point that has been made literally millions of times before. Especially when the thread isn't about that anyway.

Seriously, people, if all you want to do is virtue-signal and beat up parents to whom the most unimaginably horrible thing has happened, do just bore off.

SouthWestmom · 04/06/2020 22:17

It's like bingo with someone else's tragedy:

I'd never do that
No one I know did it at the time
I'm sorry for them BUT
They paid the ultimate price
No they didn't, little Maddie did

What have I missed?
Oh yes:

I won't post my theory cos I'll just get deleted
Ask the parents
The dogs were never wrong
She never cried
He looks controlling
I've done my research
All I'm saying is, watch the experts (on YouTube GrinHmm)

Maybe just maybe people could get over themselves and we could just keep our fingers crossed the police have got it right and the family might get some closure

saveeno · 04/06/2020 22:17

This latest theory is going nowhere IMO. No concrete evidence just speculation.

The German Police are hoping someone will come forward to corroborate things. As if anyone would do that and hope to remain anonymous now.

But I suppose we never know, and hopefully it will happen. We just have to wait and see I suppose.

JudyCoolibar · 04/06/2020 22:18

Cross posted twice, but let's hope that helps the message to get through!

PalmaSprings · 04/06/2020 22:18

It feels crazy to think somehow, out of the blue, now this person in a major suspect? Is it because he is in jail so they think people will be safe to reveal more information now but were afraid before?

If people have been holding back information all these years, maybe these should be incriminated too...poor parents.

Sonotech · 04/06/2020 22:18

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SouthWestmom · 04/06/2020 22:21

Gosh you are all over the place with your spiteful theories sono

are they heartbroken but should be punished?

Are they mercenary calculating bastards who set up a company to cash in on murder?

Are they neglectful parents who were treated specially cos they had a bit of cash?

Can't be all of them can it?

Destroyedpeople · 04/06/2020 22:22

Add that one to the bingo..

'It would of been totally different for a single mother in Benidorm'

SirVixofVixHall · 04/06/2020 22:23

Madeleine wasn’t almost three, she was almost four when she went missing. She would be seventeen now, going into the Upper Sixth in September.

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Cadent · 04/06/2020 22:29

@JoeExoticsEyebrowRing

What I can say, with absolute 100% certainty, is that my children will never disappear whilst they had been left all alone in a holiday apartment while I was having dinner and drinks somewhere else way out of sight and earshot.

What good is saying this 13 years later? You're a random on the internet, no one cares how you rear your children.

SouthWestmom · 04/06/2020 22:30

I would imagine they wanted to distance any donations or funds from their own accounts.

Why don't you say why it bothers you? What do you think it means? Or is it just not what you would do and therefore evidence of guilt.

Those are rhetorical questions btw I'm not really interested in your feverish speculation

Sparklingbrook · 04/06/2020 22:33

It's like bingo with someone else's tragedy

Spot on.

ChipotleBlessing · 04/06/2020 22:33

Are people really still going on about them leaving the kids?! It was common 13 years ago, it’s still extremely common in some other European countries. It doesn’t matter what you think you would do. And you can’t protect yourself from bad things by finding a way to other everyone who has a bad thing happen to them.

Homebirdafterall · 04/06/2020 22:34

I think comments from those 'smug' people who have never left their child in danger are actually completely relevant. Clearly there are people, like the McCanns, who think it is ok to leave their children alone so if the 'I would never do that' comments make them think twice and therefore potentially save a child, that can only be a good thing.

Destroyedpeople · 04/06/2020 22:36

God home bird just give it a rest now. It's all been said a million times already.

knittingaddict · 04/06/2020 22:37

This latest theory is going nowhere IMO. No concrete evidence just speculation.

I'm guessing that you're a member of the German police force saveeno, since you seem to know exactly what evidence they have.

Enderthedragon · 04/06/2020 22:39

Are people really still going on about them leaving the kids?! It was common 13 years ago, it’s still extremely common in some other European countries.

No it wasn't 'common' 13 years ago. People were horrified that they had done it back then too. Which European countries is it still common to do this in? I thought in a lot of European countries the kids just go to bed much later and stay out with the parents?

Sonotech · 04/06/2020 22:39

@Noeuf

I would imagine they wanted to distance any donations or funds from their own accounts.

Why don't you say why it bothers you? What do you think it means? Or is it just not what you would do and therefore evidence of guilt.

Those are rhetorical questions btw I'm not really interested in your feverish speculation

But you are as you keep personally posting to me.

It bothers me because it’s grabby and methodical. Most parents would be expecting their child to walk through the door at any minute it’s almost as if they knew they would need that business bank account for a while - I doubt it was supposed to pay for their mortgage though.