Madeleine McCann new evidence - BREAKING NEWS

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A Senior German detective has told a court that investigators had found emails on a Hotmail account used by Christian Brueckner that linked him directly to the Madeleine McCann case.

However, the detective was unable to share details of the evidence as it was 'related to the killing' of Madeleine. Brueckner, the prime suspect, is currently on trial in Germany for unrelated sex crimes.

Well if the parents want all the focus to be on the monster who stole their child, instead of them, they could always stop doing interviews on multiple talk shows and suing anyone who questions anything they say.

To the posters who are stating how they wouldn’t have acted as the McCanns did, just cop on.

They have suffered and acknowledge that they shouldn’t have done it. In her book Kate said she was uncomfortable at the time but put her concerns to the back of her head.

I haven’t done exactly this but I have been in situations where group think takes over and only afterwards you think ‘should I have done that, was it actually safe’
I’ve been on large group/ family holidays with kids and to be honest, there is always an element of group think and throw in holidays , sunshine and alcohol, it’s surprising not more accidents happen in these situations.

Oh, stop the press! This internet sleuth has cracked the case from the comfort of their living room armchair.

Have you let the police know?

Of course I have compassion for them. Nobody deserves what happened to them. However, that doesn't make what they did any less negligent.

People love a conspiracy theory, sadly.

I don't think the McCanns had anything to do with the disappearance of their daughter.

Some awful troll sent thousands of abusive'' tweets''-someone called ''sweepyface'' who turned out to be an older woman,
who later died by her own hand.

She can't have been well to have been so obsessed with the McCann case.

You’re hypothesising about things that didn’t happen. What DID happen was a sick man stole a child

Is that what happened, DelusionalBrilliance ... ?
As said I don't pretend to know either way, but it seems a little ironic to insist someone else is hypothesising and then do exactly the same

If you were spending your entire life trying to find your baby who has been stolen from you, likely raped or tortured and murdered, you should sit back quietly whilst the world accuses you of killing them, and never speak publicly to keep awareness of Madeline instead stay silent and let the world forget about it all. Got it.

Who are young children most in danger from statistically? Does class blind people to realities and truth? Once a narrative becomes publically accepted it is hard to change particularly if powerful or high profile people are involved. Mumsnet has a particular demographic which means people are broadly sympathetic to middle class doctor couple but that doesn’t make it correct or truthful. On the balance of probabilities I suspect the parents know exactly what happened to Madeleine (likely accidental death), the Portuguese police also know. Perhaps the truth will be revealed in time.

How dare they remain stubborn and resilient in their search, eh.

They really ought to consider how uncomfortable their resilience and determination makes some people feel.

A number of years ago I was on a very large, very busy campsite in France and at 11.30pm
at the entertainment area/bar I spotted 3 children crying. Oldest was maybe 7 and they had lost their 3 year old sister/ cousin. I brought them
back to their mobile (very close) where the parents and friends were drinking on the deck. Of course total panic ensued but the extremely upset toddler was quickly found.

I was still up with my friend and our older kids but the husbands were back with the younger ones from about 10pm. We were not perfect parents by any stretch and I cringe when I think of the times I left them in the pool and didn’t always have eyes on them, but I was aghast that anyone would consider this ok.

The parents clearly got caught up
in the drinks and the fun and kids having fun together - when the reality was it was very dangerous

By the same token, we simply don't know if any other motive exists for some of the more batshit comments about the parents being responsible.

Could someone more knowledgeable please explain, how do they find emails after such a long time? I do understand that they sit somewhere on the net but how do they track them down?

Madeline is the victim, not her parents, and everyone that let her down should be held responsible.
We don't know what happened, but we do know her parents were at best negligent, and anyone excusing that needs to give their head a wobble.

The people they sue are experts who have no axe to grind with the McCanns but do have professional experience of cases that involve child abductions. If they try to explain their considered views on what may or may not have happened and why, they are immediately silenced.

This is unusual behaviour. That does not mean that I think the McCanns are bad people, or that I don’t think they’ve suffered.

But the only reason why they have been able to sue everyone who questions them is because of the money they’ve made from the Madeleine fund and other publicity.

I'm always amazed how many people think their personal judgement on the behaviour of the parents actually matters. These threads always go the same way.

It’s a defence mechanism/ self soothing reflex. “Well I would never do that, so therefore something like this would never happen to me/ my child”.

Several years ago the story broke about an email where he wrote 'mm' in response to a comment about a ch I ld rape or murder and questions were asked as to whether , it was an abbreviation for madeleine McConnell or like mmhmm response.
I wonder it the just a rehash of that story

I think Esther McVey (lifelong friend of Kate McCann) excuses that negligence, hence why I think she was unfit to be the so-called minister for common sense.

Quite right, and as mentioned I can fully understand the parents wanting to shut down some of the worst speculation and accusations whether they were involved or not

What I'm not sure about though is why, in a world where children sadly go missing every day, this particular case continues to receive the official attention and funding it does

Of course that's not to say it shouldn't be investigated - just to wonder what makes this unique in still being such a hot topic 17 years later

Yes, I suspect you're probably right.

I’ve never read that book so can’t comment on it but there are lots of ways that comments can be taken out of context to make them seem odd and change the meaning.

A really well known one was a theatre poster which had a quote of something along the lines of ‘…the best show ever’ and the full quote was something like ‘this would never be described as the best show ever’. I have a friend who is an academic author and marked an assignment by a student which cited her research as reported by someone else and got the key message completely wrong. The article the student had used had misreported the findings.

These things happen which is why it’s never a good idea take take second and third hand information as fact. Particularly in legal situations.

Probably because the cases are subjudice.

I think it's the timing as much as anything. This all happened as social media was coming in, and when the 24 news cycle was well established. There are people who've cited Kerry Needham more approvingly, but the biggest difference between her and the McCanns is that she lost her child when trial by internet wasn't yet a possibility. There was simply a lot more news coverage to be filled up by 2007.

And because it was such a huge story, the whole thing turned into a cottage industry. Books, websites, money made.

I care.
A lot.
And christ your standards are low if "not leaving a 3 yr old and 2 babies alone" is perfect parenting.