Did anyone hear on the radio that the police are close to an arrest in the Madeleine case?

[BarbieGirl]

I haven't had time to swith the box on or the radio. Wondered if anyone heard anything??

Of course they don't, unless it involves paedophiles or cruelty to children so that they can sharpen pitchforks

The morons

exactly mcEdam, leave them alone and let them get on with the job of finding madeline, the police ovbiusly (cant spell) havent a clue where she is..theres been no mention of her! - bless her

McEdam i would not be posting about Gordon Brown on a Madeline McCann thread would I.

As you mention it i do feel that it is a good move that Gordan Brown would not like the Government to be sectional but one that genuniely unifies the countries wishes.

I feel people should be entitled to the freedom to give their views.

You feel that is awful to comment on their parenting, i have not done so and nor have some of the other posters on here they are purely discussing the news issue to which the post relates.

Start a new thread on a news issue that you would like to discuss and im sure you would not be subject to abuse from other users.

can someone please explain to me, in logistical terms, how you can be sitting in a restaurant a hundred yards from your apartment, having a drink with friends and also murdering your daughter in the room she shared with her toddler siblings, as if you were going off to the loo?

I mean if one person can put forward a competant theory about how exactly that could have happened then i may, just may start to doubt their innocence. but only then.

No-one will know exactly what happened that night.

I think I speak for every1 when I say that we are all concerned for the poor 4yr old girl and can only hope and pray that she is safe and well.

Yes the media plays a great part in influencing us but we are all only human.

I am one of the posters on here as i did feel that people have the right to comment on the storys (as you can see from my last post)

However on trying to fish out the news story as i missed it and was wondering what had gone on i can see why people may find some threads offensive. The posts (not necc on this thread) seem to waver from the fact's to elaborate stories on burying bodies and drug overdoes none of which are proven facts, i for one would not want to discuss those kind of things .

I asked a question about sedation as I wasnt sure if I had heard correctly so thought I would ask, I appologise for offending anyone but if i need to know an answer to a question i will ask.

again sorry if i offended

originalUB-all ive heard on news reports today is that the McCanns have been officially made suspects now.there have been reports of sedation etc in the tabloid press,though

i did only hear a news report on the radio at 3pm though and saw the headlines in the papers this morning.

JamButtie you hadnt offended me and im wasnt referring to your post directly. There are just so many posts and so many websites which is what i was referring to.

i was just meaning that i think there is a stage when the threads can appear out off hand and you can loose that divide between fact and speculation.

When i posted i had been scanning for the news and saw a post that they had hid and buried etc and thought that is awful, to find that it was speculation.

Everyone has the right to there views but i just thought that was alittle strong.

Just trying to explain why some post and some may object to the threads

thanks originaluglybetty

I haven't slated the Mcganns nor have I speculated on what may have happened

I have commented on things I have heard on the news and things I have seen on news websites (i don't get newspapers)

Mostly, I have commented on the way some posters on here, want to stop all discussion of this matter. That is what I am getting fed up with. The 'lets fill up the threads with cleaning' stuff, has pissed me off. If you don't like what is being said then don't read it and walk away. I do it all the time on here.

If people want to speculate, who are they hurting? The McGanns can't hurt anymore than they already are and I doubt the care what members of an internet forum think. So who is it hurting

People are goingt o talk about this, at this moment, every british news channel only covered this story this afternoon, they cancelled other programming, ITV put on an hour special news.......you really expect people to not to discuss it??

When this story started, any one that said anything about leaving the children alone were shouted down and threads were filled til they closed and told stop discussing until there is something to discuss, well now there is!

And as for Gordon Brown, I don't give a toss. But i would be allowed to say that on any other news topic.

McCann

It's not the discussion of it I find offensive, it's the tone. It's the "no smoke without fire... i never liked the look of them... he's a surgeon, they're all murderers anyway" tone I object to (that last one wasn't on a mumsnet thread btw, that was a RL viewpoint I overheard today ).

I just find it very very stupid. I'm sorry, but I do. It's been done over and over and over again and the same things are being posted over and over again and stuff being repeated that already turned out to be discredited... and it depresses me to find such a lack of critical thought going on.

I've been very aggressive on these threads this evening because I've been so pissed off with the posts, so I apologise to everyone I've called a moron or stupid, I've been deliberately provocative because those threads horrify me. Sorry.

I have seen very few with that view today. Most people are just mulling over and trying to make sense of all the theories out there. These theories aren't coming from people on here, they are coming from newpapers, news, internet etc and people are saying WTF

This case is so confusing, so unusual, I know I am totally confused

A lot of people don't agree with the fact the children were alone and they have that right but todays news is shocking and I think it is everyones right to discuss it

This is what happens when the press get involved to the extent they have and to some extent been invited to.

I have no idea what happened that night and I suspect we never will but my interest had been encouraged by the press and I find myself mulling over the facts/lies published.

i haven't read the whole thread so sorry if this has been mentioned but something i have found disturbing is that the man in charge of the case was accused of beating a confession out of a mother who's child went missing 7 miles from where the McCann's were staying and is now serving 16 years in jail

shouldn't they set alarm bells ringing that this could be a set up?

i just can not and will not get my head around the idea of the McCanns having done this until I see 100% proof which proves me wrong.

This was the woman who killed her child and fed its body to a pig.

really? it didn't say anything about any body in any of the papers I read today

What, all the child's body? How do we know that? Was there no part of the body remaining? Was the pig dissected?

Was the child being carried away a boy/girl, awake/asleep, alive/dead?

This is such a strange case.

I wish we could fast forward to the end, however it ends.

They are now saying they want to go home as soon as possible. Yesterday they were staying. Why are they constantly telling us what they are doing? And by us I mean the general public.

Presumably because journalists ask them, Nab

Right. The other day "They let it be known...."

bobbysmum, i think you must be thinking of another case. I am sure it said in the paper that no trace of this girl has ever been found. Similiar circumstances to Madeleine and only 7 miles away.

But that's typical journalese.

They let it be known could be a press conference, a chat over coffee, a friend or family member casually mentioning something to a journalist, or being buttonholed by the paparazzi as you come out of your office.

It doesn't imply anything about the means of how they "let it be known".

Aren't they followed everywhere by journalists? I would have thought the reason we know everything, would be because they answer questions which are then reported.