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]

@BlackberryCane so are you just telling me not to voice my opinion because I'm wrong?

I had a newborn baby when Madeleine McCann went missing, and I have often thought of her and her family and desperately hoped that she would be found.
I know it is unlikely that she is alive, but the horror of never knowing what happened to your child, unimaginable. I think of the mother of Keith Bennett , dying without finding where her little boy had been buried, spending all those decades searching for him. I very much hope that is not the fate of Madeleine’s family, and that she will be found.

This thread.

Ah yes Frumpety I get it, thanks.

Doesn't matter anymore now much as we would love the child to be found. It's over for most us who use the Occam's Razor Theory anyway.

So surprised that the thread is still open TBH. Given the MN approach to this topic up to now.

Why has it taken so long for this suspect to come to light, after 13 years of investigating he never turned up before? I did listen to an Australian podcast, I think it was called "Maddie" and a journalist talked about a German suspect that Scotland Yard were planning to go public with and that they were wrong.

I can't imagine this suspect will say a word.

Would her DNA still be in the vehicles, 13 years later?

[quote ElectricTonight]@BlackberryCane so are you just telling me not to voice my opinion because I'm wrong? [/quote]
You can say whatever you want. All I want to know is whether you have any idea what you're talking about when you tell us they were behaving weirdly, which it has become clear that you do not. Musing on why this case leads to so many people overreaching their level of knowledge isn't telling you what to say. It isn't even saying that your assessment is wrong, actually.

It is lazy and misleading to trot out figures about thousands of children ‘going missing’ every year in the context of the McCann case, which was and remains incredibly rare.
As has been previously pointed out teenagers or children who ‘run away’ are logged as missing as soon as police are informed, regardless of whether or not they return within 10 minutes ( as DD did because she forgot her coat!) Many, many children are reported missing because of parental and family disputes.
The assertion that Madeleine McCann isn’t worthy of police time or justice because ‘1000s of other kids are missing’ is false. The circumstances if her disappearance and the probable outcome are thankfully rare but she is a child who deserves to be found.

I really hope this comes to something...just the give the parents & family to get some new information which might lead to closure.

May 2007 I can remember so clearly when this was on the Breakfast news channel the following morning after she disappeared and it was heartbreaking to hear how she had disappeared.

At the time, I had not had any children, now with DC2 it just makes me shudder when the case is recounted.

I feel for the parents and the younger twin siblings.

A lot of people said at the time she was taken out of the country quickly and this does happen a lot with child abductions.

my own layman thoughts were that she would have ben taken by boat, Lagos is a very big international marina with plenty of boats that would be very capable of getting away swiftly.

I know the are reasonably well and have stayed in Luz, shopped in the supermarket nearby the apartments, would I have done the same as those families eating out that night - yes probably

Honestly. It's actually a disgrace that anyone actually has sympathy for them

wow, you sound pleasant.

@BlackberryCane I just don't understand why so many people are quick to defend them when there are so many things that don't add up.

No I'm not an expert but I've watched the reports/videos of experts analysing them,
I suppose most people believe in innocent until proven guilty, doesn't mean people are truly innocent. We can speculate it's natural.

Poor parents?! Poor Madeleine. My son was also born in May 2003. I didn't ever leave him alone to est tapas with mates. Obvs the McCanns are v good at managing the media so I will await the removal of my post. But I'm genuinely surprised to see support for them on here.

My heart goes out to her siblings whose lives have been changed by the immense pain and loss of their sister. I hope they’re doing as OK as can be in the circumstances, especially now they’re old enough to understand. Whatever you think of the McCann’s parenting, it must be heartbreaking for those younger 2 children to be reading theories about their parents being responsible.

I watched the Netflix documentary on the case and I'm really not sure what to think.

All I can say is whatever happened to that poor girl, I hope the truth is revealed. Unsolved cases like this have a special kind of sadness to them because of the not knowing.

So yet another thread with all the posters crawling out from under their rocks to point figures because of some YouTube videos they've watched and because Kate MCCann didn't cry enough.

Was an interesting development, now awaiting thread deletion thanks to those who just can't help themselves.

I really hope we get to know at least what happened. I’ve thought about her a lot over the years and prayed for her safe return. I probably am going to get called “naive” and stupid or other insults but I do really hope it turns out that she was given to a family that were childless and she has spent these years being loved, I cannot bear to think of The horrific alternatives. This story and James bulger are the 2 stories that have never left me.

@Campervan69 like you we were in Portugal when she went missing (well arrived in Praia da Luz a few hours later) so have always followed the story very closely. I really hope this new lead brings some form of closure to the family.

Hi all,

Just a reminder - speculation will be deleted as it isn't in the spirit of the site.

Thanks.

I had two young children at the time of that child's disappearance, about the same ages. At the time we lived in a second floor flat with several pubs about the same distance away. I remember thinking how utterly whacked you'd have to be to think leaving two children that age alone in an unlocked flat to have a bevvy was ever alright.