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

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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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I think the extended family need to stop leaking the details of the interviews. Their incredulity is misplaced and reflects badly on them.

The police have every right to investigate the McCanns, I'm sure its awful and upsetting for them but we all know that the parents will always be suspected to some extent in these cases.

If the police did not investigate the McCanns they wouldn't be doing their job. They cant be eliminated from the inquiry until they have been investigated and if the police feel the need to name KM as a suspectin order to further that investigation then so be it.

Feasible?
Oh yes, Kate comes running in screaming then whispers to Gerry "She's dead but don't say anything, you go and hide the body, I'll pretend she's been abducted"
Later on they decide to go public because the hiding place Gerry amazingly found in 5 mins that night was so good no one found her for 25 days until they had sorted out a new hiding place (which they did in the middle of the night when the press wasn't following them) then they hired a car, took the body from it's undiscovered hiding place and took it to a new one all the while remaining firmly in the public eye. Sounds plausible to me.

FGS bobbysmum there is NO DNA evidence pointing to their guilt

There is not even a body to show that this child is dead.

There are only media reports. And announcements. And mad mad mad speculation.

I'm not desperate to defend them. I just think people should not believe all the shit printed in the press and say very stupid things like "no smoke without fire". That type of stupid attitude got women like Sally Clarke and Angela Cannings sent to prison.

We come to Mumsnet because it's the most intelligent corner of the internet. It's upsetting to read reams and reams of idiocy. I guess that's why we come across as "desperate to defend them". I'm desperate to defend mumsnet from the rising tide of stupidity which seems to have overwhelmed it recently.

Are you related to these people, beansprout, or what?

The police are there to do a job. I don't think "hate" comes into it, though I would say my father has come across some pretty hateful people in his time. And guess what? Murderers come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them even look and sound like you.

Be very careful who you choose to identify with.

Oh hamster, definitely, and my dad wasn't even a detective!

LittleBella - Some people here are intelligent. Some are not.

Oh that great clincher of an argument, "or what?"

No, I just don't share your inherent distrust of people. In the UK we have a principle of innocent until proven guilty.
Just think, for a moment, about what you are saying. You don't have a shred of evidence to support what you are saying, rather than your own, rather nasty suspicions. If you are wrong, how are you going to make amends for the utter nastiness you have posted on a public forum? I hope you are shown more understanding should you ever find yourself in a similar situation.

Steady bobby...not all are 'defending' them.

FWIW we have no basis upon which to judge the portugese police types. Usually find that McCann defenders are police attackers, through ill-informed opinion.

right i have a question, having never really been involved in these discussions before or paid much attention to the case.
I thought that the Portuguese secrecy laws meant that the public couldn't be told anything about the police investigation?
but I just watched BBC N24 and the world and his dog are on there giving details of the police questioning including the McCann's spokesperson.
what gives?

Indeed bobbysmum

I wondered that harpsi

We musn't believe the media now? What about when the media was doing everything in their power to support the family? Were we supposed to believe them then?

And why should we believe 2 people's story, people we don't know anything about, other than what they say/do and what their friend/family say do?

bobbysmum07 ... quite aside from the MM business, I have to say ... you're an irritating little bugger. You really are.

I know, I should step away shouldn't I?
it is doing my head in already.
the whole thing appears to make absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Yes why should we believe anyone. Why should you have beleived Sally Clark? Why should you have believed Angela Canning? Why should you have believed the Birmingham Six?

Why bother to believe anyone? Let's just assume everyone ever arrested is guilty shall we, and let them prove they're innocent.

Great idea, yes. Onwards to the gibbet!

ROFL at "we mustn't believe the media now?"

It sounds so innocently trusting. Particularly the "now" bit.

Bless.

Burn the witch!!!

i am surprised bobbys mum, why are you being so harsh and just speculating so much???

I have said it before and I will say it again

if they have anything to do with this I will eat my foot

total, utter, made up crap

If a person is arrested and charged with a crime, it means the police have enough evidence to charge the person. But the person is still presumed innocent - unless the person confesses and agrees to plead guilty in court - until all the evidence has been heard and assessed by a judge and jury.

I have done jury service in the past and (without, obviously, going into any details) was part of the jury on one case which I found very upsetting as the accused was not guilty but had been locked up on remand for about 6 months, lost his home and his job.

I also recall a case involving people I knew personally, where the perpetrator of a crime was acquitted but I knew the perpetrator was guilty.
Miscarriages of justice do occur. But also, parents sometimes do kill their children. We may not ever know what happened in this particular case. We certainly don't know anything at present.

Well, they did have something to do with it, olive. They left their kids alone.

< whispers> What's a cadaver?

Dead body.