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OMG, Kate McCann is expected to be formally declared as a SUSPECT???!!!

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haychee · 07/09/2007 08:30

I was watching the news last night re Kate McCanns requestioning by the Portuguese Police. I have updated on the events this morning and it appears she will be declared as a SUSPECT today. Im shocked about this, what do you all think? Surely she didnt have anything to do with it?

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HorribleHorace · 07/09/2007 13:15

omg - Kate McCann is expected to be charged later today? Really? I can't get my head round this - sorry

pagwatch · 07/09/2007 13:15

I won't email you thanks. I don't have a problem with you - I just don't agree with you on this

PSCMUM · 07/09/2007 13:17

I completely agree with you McEdam. The family have gone through so much, this is such a tragedy, they are suffering constantly, and now to have the retarded incapable incompetent bumbling portugeuese police, who we have to all remember, did not look at the crime scene until 3 weeks after her disappearance, did not shut down any borders, did not even announce that she was missing (her parents did this themselves), did not tell the media what clothes she was wearing when she was taken (her parents did this themselves), have STILL 4 months later, not done a house to house in the local area- (one of the first things the UK police do in a case like this,) and now have the gaul to do this to Kate McCann, without whom, they would probably have shut their file on the case altogether!for gods sake everyone, it is so clear that she had nothing to do with the disappearance and wants, as all of us would, her daughter back. And one more thing - the jeering crowd outside the police station. How low can humans actually get. To jeer at a woman who has lost her young precious daughter for 4 months, with nightmares constantly about what has happened to her and whether she is suffering, being abused, or even dead. I was just astounded to see that, I'm just not sure what drives people to be so awful to someone so in need of sympathy and support.
End of Rant.

totaleclipse · 07/09/2007 13:17

sorry for your dd friend

Beenleigh · 07/09/2007 13:17

I NEVER come on the news bit, but just have to say that although I can not be ased to read this whole sorry thread. FFS THAT POOR POOR WOMAN DID NOT HURT HER CHILD AND IS NOT IN ANY WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING TO DO WITH HER DISAPPEARENCE. ANYONE WHO REMOTELY SUSPECTS THAT SHE DID MUST HAVE A SCREW LOOSE!!!
The portugese police have done this before in a similar situation

Original poster
haychee · 07/09/2007 13:18

charged suspect

OMG.

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haychee · 07/09/2007 13:19

Portuguese police must "have a screw loose" then!

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whiskeyandbeer · 07/09/2007 13:21

in fairness i'm not suprised as from what we've been given (and i accept we have anything but the full story and are relying on half truths and chinese whispers) there do seem to be gaping holes in their account. but more so i think the parents should have been suspects from the start if only to rule them out.

PSCMUM · 07/09/2007 13:22

o my god has she been charged:? I'm not near a TV, just the internet, and the sky site says she's a suspect, but not that she has been charged - update quick please!

LadyVictoriaOfCake · 07/09/2007 13:22

beenleigh, do you know that for definate?

PSCMUM · 07/09/2007 13:23

what are the gpaing holes in their account?

as opposed to the gaping holes in the police investigation!

Nbg · 07/09/2007 13:23

No she hasnt been charged yet.

They are saying that her lawyer is telling her they are expecting to charge later today.

LadyVictoriaOfCake · 07/09/2007 13:23

shit i posted [goes back to houserwork]

preggersagain · 07/09/2007 13:24

how can anyone be so sure she didn't do it (or on the other hand if she did!) are you Kate McCann or Madeline- NO, you cannot be sure, that is why there is a police investigation and why even if she does end up being charged there will be a court case where all of the facts of the case will be released to the jury

Can we leave all the speculation to the media please and concentrate on how lucky we all are not to be involved in what is rapidly turning into hell on earth!

Beenleigh · 07/09/2007 13:24

Actually, yes, I can say from the bottom of my heart that I do know that for definite. And, yes, the Portugese police have quite clearly demonstrated that they have a collective screw loose!!!

PSCMUM · 07/09/2007 13:25

o how terrible. how just awful, awful for Kate, awful for Gerry, awful for thos epoor littel twins, and for Madeliene. Still missing, still not ok, still out there somewhere in whatever state she might be in. The people who did this must be feeling very relived today at the extent to which the portuguese police are barking so determinedly up the wrong tree.

morethanmum · 07/09/2007 13:27

I don't get how people can be so sure about their being innocent? None of us actually know them, unless I'm wrong. Just being middle class and mounting a huge media campaign doesn't make them saints. I have no idea - all we do know for a fact is that Maddy was on holiday, and disappeared while left alone with her twin siblings. It's just a mess.

PhoenixSongbird · 07/09/2007 13:28

When people say 'she can't have done it', what they really mean is 'I could never do that to my child'. It's incomprehensible to them that a mother, of all people, could harm her own child, so it can't be true. But we all know it does happen.

There may be gaping holes in the McCann's account, there may be gaping holes in the police investigation, but there are definitely gaping holes in what we, the public, have been told.

That's all any of us 'know'!

HorribleHorace · 07/09/2007 13:28

it is just crazy to suggest they could have done it. Utter Madness. I really feel the Portugese are cluthing at straws here.

Poor, poor souls. I feel so desperately sorry for them

minorityrules · 07/09/2007 13:29

No one knows but the evidence from the lab must have turned up something of importance, which has lead to these events

Just because the portugese police don't talk to the media (like the british ones do) doesn't mean the effed the case up, just means WE don't know what evidence they have or don't have

Portugal isn't a third world country and I'm sure they have had complicated cases before

I like their system, much better than the trial by tabloids we get here

PSCMUM · 07/09/2007 13:30

well..if she had anything to do with it, why would she go so over and above what anyone has done before to find her daughter? why would they co operate with the police so well, why did they provide madeliene;s hair brush etc to the police to get DNA from, when they could easily have lost / washed such stuff without arising suspicion? Why would they stay in POrtugal so long when they could have easily made perfeclty understanable reasons for leaving - the twins, to be near family, to be in their own home etc. There is so much that does not add up to them having anything to do with it, that I am as sure as I can be, that they had nothing to do with it.

goingfor3 · 07/09/2007 13:31

I don't understand why people think they couldn't have done it either. There is always the possibility they may have.

tortoiseSHELL · 07/09/2007 13:31

Can't believe this thread.

Tbh, if the evidence is that there was blood found in their hire car, it's just as likely that the abductor is the owner of the hire car company, who hired them the car he used, to pin the blame on them. WE DON'T KNOW.

PSCMUM · 07/09/2007 13:31

I really am interested - what are the gaping holes in their account? They obvioulsy made a mistake to leave the kids alone, one which they have paid for dearly, but what are the actual 'holes' you refer to whiskeyandbeer?

preggersagain · 07/09/2007 13:34

beenleigh- maybe you should suggest to the police that they fly you out there as you obviously have super crime fighting skills and insticts

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