Madeleine McCann - new suspect

[KatherineJaneway]

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]

“ I'm not really sure I believe these 'exciting new lead in the search for Madeleine' stories. They always seem to hit the press just before the police apply for extra funding for the investigation. ”

Cynical me though something similar. I hope Scotland Yard spend similar amounts of time, resources and money on all missing children.

@Noeuf

The suspect people are confusing this one with is not the same. That was a convicted paedophile initials MN I think. This suspect has not been named and his crimes not revealed.

I was reading the Telegraph report. Is this latest suspect different, then?

How many other children are " missing"...hundreds? thousands? Poor, poor things and poor families.

If she is alive surely she 'd have no memory of her life with her family.
I'd imagine she's going to have to build up a relationship with them before she goes back to the m.

@DrDreReturns. Would you leAve "it" alone if heaven forbid it were your child. I'd still be ripping the earth up with my bear hands.

Completely agree @Awwlookatmybabyspider

CheerfulPotato I wouldn't move on if I were the parents, of course, but I don't understand why the rest of the nation is obliged to be in this state of perpetual grief over this child. It's morbid and self-indulgent.

blimey

The grinning emojis seem a bit out of place on this thread.

Wow can’t believe how long it’s been- she’d be just turned 17 now.

I always think of the younger twin siblings who must be in their teens now. They won’t remember any of it yet it must follow them everywhere- surely everybody at school and so on will know who they are, it must hang over them a bit.

I really hope this brings some answers but there have been numerous ‘breakthroughs’ reported over the years that never lead anywhere.

That photofit is spookily close.

There was never any evidence that the parents had anything to do with it at all.

Shine - just read that and it does mention a source saying that but they can't confirm. I think before your comment ppl were wondering if it was the same suspect that had been considered before.

Ah, I see.

The nation worries about a little fair haired kid...go figure. friends in the right places.

I hope the parents get closure too. I can't imagine how it must feel losing a child but not even being able to grieve because you don't know if they are dead must be awful!

I just hope they get the right person and don't just pin it on someone who doesn't have an alibi.

Reading some of the comments on here I'm not surprised these threads get deleted.

I don't think I need to be a professional in anything to form an opinion on something and as a mother I'd not leave my children in an apartment in foreign country to begin with.

Obviously no one knows what happened to Madeleine, I also didn't say I think the parents murdered her I simply said something was off about them but I suppose I could give people the same opinion on me.

I just hope this lead isn't a dead end.

Listening

These are real people you're posting about

Hopefully this new line of enquiry will lead somewhere.

I feel for the McCanns and hope the case is solved. That doesn't mean I feel "obliged to be in this state of perpetual grief over this child." That's a really silly and self-indulgent remark in itself @thepeopleversuswork.

"The nation worries about a little fair haired kid...go figure. friends in the right places."

What does this even mean? ^^

In the United Kingdom, an estimated 112,853 children are reported missing every year.

Now that I have children, I can't believe they left them in an apartment to go out to a bar without a babysitter. I don't think I appreciated how irresponsible and horrific that was at the time. I'm surprised that social services weren't involved wth the twins after the kidnap.

I hope that some closure comes - that poor little girl let down by her parents.

@ListeningQuietly At least spell her name right if you're going to post shite about it