A thread to discuss DEVELOPMENTS regarding Maddie McCann

[jampot]

We can discuss parenting styles in a few weeks

dionnelorraine
you are the voice of reason

oh ok - but Portugese police are not allowed to talk about is so everything is guesswork.

Beetroot there were British crime officers over there on the news this afternoon. It is hard as the police cannot authenticate anything but i would be surprised that they would say these specialist officers had arrived had that not been true. However it is always going to be an element of guess although tugmommy has said they are making statements now (she is portugese)

Has anything like this ever happened in portugal before??

yes they're making statements but just for the sake of it, they're not actually saying anything. They made a statement yesterday but it was pointless wasnn't it?

oh the irony....

No, looks like nothing like this ever happened. Lots of child abuse and sexual crimes, but always coming from the family (). There was a very recent case, also in the Algarve about a girl that disappeared, she just vanished after going to get some milk and bread to the shop or something. It was quite big in the news but then it turned out it was her mother and uncle (disgust emoticon). The police were greatly criticised, they did lots of thinks wrong apparently, hopefully they took some lessons from it....

Actually I just had a look at the web page of Policia Judiciaria because I saw in the news that Madeleine was there in the missing persons and there are so few other children there, some pictures look really old as well

arf at donnie

olive oyu at work?

Have I just read it right that it is her 4th birthday on the 12th may?

yes, that's right, on Saturday

Lets all hope she is home then to celebrate

yes

Nemo her uncle said that they were still going ahead with party preperations.

Did anyone just see SKY news - they were interviewing Madeleine's nursery teacher (NB she called her Madeleine and never Maddie) - and it was such a non interview - the poor woman looked so embarassed. Waste of time !

That is what I mean by timefilling. Poor woman probably felt she had to do it

They are saying they need british police help now...

read it here

interviewing the nursery teacher - now that really is filling news space.

no scooby they're not saying they need brittish police - that report says that a former brittish police officer, and now child protection expert is sayint that they should draft in brittish police. that's vastly different to saying "they're saying they need the brittish police".

In one of the portuguese tabloids today they have how the parents met and fell in love!!! Talk about about useless information!

If they were being watched, it looks like the McCanns made it easy for the abductor to know when to strike.

Correio da Manha also reported that the McCanns had left their children alone before during their holiday in the Algarve. "Police have reconstructed the holiday routines of the McCanns and have come to the conclusion that the children were left alone on other occasions," the daily said.

Q&A: Madeleine McCann

that thought frightens me - the whole "on order" idea. Its one thing to think of sicko's out there taking an interest in our children, but another to think that these things happen

police have sealed off a town called Nellas as they have sighted a man with a girl of Madeleine's description.