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

1005 replies

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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lornaloo · 07/09/2007 20:11

I noticed someone mentioned the blood was found in the boot of the car. I dont think they've actually said where the blood was found yet. Or have they?

kentgirl73 · 07/09/2007 20:11

the old lady who has an apartment above the mccanss hols one - she had an intruder a few weeks before too

She heard a little child call out daddy twice in the period of an hour - apparantly

RTKangaMummy · 07/09/2007 20:13

oke doke

i have just looked it up and it is used for sleep problems & before surgery etc.

I thought it was just for flights etc.

Pan · 07/09/2007 20:20

"I agree with you......pan" !!!! I'm sure this event was mentioned in The Book of Revalations.. Repent Repent!!

dellgirl13 · 07/09/2007 20:22

fries- thats what i was trying to say there would be a difference between living blood and dead blood as such

Desiderata · 07/09/2007 20:26

Pan v Desi is mentioned in the 15th Quatraine of Nostradamus.

Dark clouds are gathering my friend

dellgirl13 · 07/09/2007 20:29

kerry- i also wondered from the start why they left small children alone ,did,not have a babysitter and were kinda sure they would not wake up. i thought they may have sedated them before it was mentioned. it is easy too for people working in hospitals to aquire certain drugs. as i said before abduction would be the least of my worries, i would worry that they would wake up and be scared or fall out of bed and hurt them selves especially the twins. i check on my 4,2 and six month old regularly at night and they are only upstairs!!

Desiderata · 07/09/2007 20:30

Oh, I hate to post on the specifics, but I must, I must ...

Didn't the British police send over a highly-trained dog who could smell the scent of a cadaver? The Portuguese police do not possess such a beast because it costs a lot of money to train one, and they have no justification .. (small population, much lower crime rate, etc).

It isn't blood the particular dog scented. It was the presence of a cadaver (which, of course, doesn't bleed).

And now, I really must depart.

Pan · 07/09/2007 20:30

phew!!

Wigan isn't actually at the end of the world...

But you can see it from there.......

HorribleHorace · 07/09/2007 20:32

where is this dog meant to have picked up the scent? in the hire car?

Desiderata · 07/09/2007 20:33

Quote of the week, mate

Unless you're from Wigan, of course ..

dellgirl13 · 07/09/2007 20:33

just out of interest i have this from some old course work.'chlorpromazine and promethazine, have been used for many years in children. Over the past decade, there has been increasing concern over the potential for respiratory depression with these agents, particularly when used in the office or home setting.'this was from a report on a medical sight on sedatives in children.

Desiderata · 07/09/2007 20:34

No, in the apartment, apparently. But I'm just reciting what I've read, and it means nothing, does it?

Definitely going now.

LittleBella · 07/09/2007 20:35

oh jesus soapbox that mirror thread makes this one looks intellectual.

And that's saying something.

Sexonlegs · 07/09/2007 20:39

I have to say I have had my suspicions. I don't know why, but I td to agree with wannabe and a few others. They seem to be going completely over the top with these visits to the pope and so on. No smoke without fire.

LittleBella · 07/09/2007 20:41

Moron

flightattendant · 07/09/2007 20:41

Just don't get it at all.

Leaving tiny children on their own for 20 minutes or more at a time without checking on them...I mean its not the same as leaving them upstairs within shouting distance, in a house they know and are able to find their way through if they are upset or need mummy...

Yes sure you might see if one of them made it to the exit of the place, if you are 50 yards away, but somehow I can't imagine a child that age being able to find her way from an apartment to wherever her parents are, somewhere near the building...

I would hate to think of my children being alone like that, they might be upset or crying or hurt...and mine have never been reliable sleepers for more than a few hours, you just never know if they might wake.

It is all beyond me. Night all.

bobbysmum07 · 07/09/2007 20:49

TraceyTwo - My father is (was) a detective. He's recently retired.

So what?

beansprout · 07/09/2007 20:50

Did he form hateful opinions of people he had never met, or is that something you have taught yourself?

LittleBella · 07/09/2007 20:52

Their eyes are too close together

They have a shifty look

They don't talk like me

They must be guilty

Put me on a jury now

God help us

Chipstick · 07/09/2007 20:52

We have the tv on all day at work although the volume is down and the entire day watching the images all I could think of was Mumsnet and the discussions that must be happening - 800 posts in 12 hours, a record surely!?!

madamez · 07/09/2007 20:52

It's certainly a feasible situation that the child was accidently killed and the death covered up. It's also feasible that the Portugese police had strong suspicions all along and were trying to build a definitive case rather than just being a bunch of incompetent foreigners.

Having said that, this may be one of those cases where no one ever does find out what actually happened. No one ever found out what happened to the kid who disappeared on holiday 20 years ago, or to Genette Tate (who vanished on a country lane 30 years ago as completely as if aliens had abducted her - though I do vaguely remember the police had strong suspicions some 20 years down the line that a serial child killer might have been responsible, but there was never enough evidence to charge the individual).
It's alwasy been a possiblity that the parents killed the child. It happens. Irrespective of social class, age, status, whatever: most murders are committed by family members. Remember the panic about road rage killings? In the two highest profile cases, one was the passenger in the car (the murder victim's girlfriend) the other was something to do with some gangland business, but for months the papers were full of Road Rage The New Terror as though you could barely stop on an amber light without some frothing maniace setting about you with a machete. Abduction of children by strangers does occur, but it's incredibly rare.

doyouwantfrieswiththat · 07/09/2007 20:57

dellgirl I was thinking , for patternation to be enough for evidence purposes, surely there would need to be a fair bit of it spread about (even in 'invisible to the human eye' traces).

bobbysmum07 · 07/09/2007 20:59

I don't understand why you are all so desperate to defend these people.

Framed by the police? Coincidentally hired the same car that the "real" murderer used weeks before?

It's madness.

For God's sake, there's DNA evidence pointing to the fact that these people were responsible for their child's disappearance.

They have fed the police and the media a pack of lies about the night in question. They have tried to put another person in the frame.

They have taken people's hard-earned money.

Why - in the name of God - are you all defending them?

hercules1 · 07/09/2007 21:00

HAve the police said all that Bobbysmum? OR are you just guessing?

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