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

[haychee]

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?

Pan will not be surprised to know that Nadine agrees with Desi on this one!

By uber liberal, I take it you mean "civilised" and "careful". It is a shame that the bent coppers in the Birm. 6 case didn't have a better understanding of legal/illegal. Never mind being "uber liberal", whatever you actually mean by that. As I have nooo idea.

so could it be that she was never even put to bed????

They have said on bbc news that Gerry Mccann is being questioned but it is believed that he is not going to be named as a suspect. So why Kate and not Gerry? If the only evidence was the blood stains in the car they would both be named surely, there has to be more evidence than that.

There is a lot about this case that doesn?t add up, but I really don?t think that the police would stand to gain anything by setting up Kate Mccann. If they really wanted to set someone up surely it would be easier to set up Robert Murat? After all he?s already been hung drawn and quartered by the media, implicating him now would be much easier, and would make the media go away far more quietly, and would even mean the Mccanns would go back to the UK, at which point the frenzy in Portugal would die down considerably.

And I really think the family should stop talking to the media.

uber liberal means you don't believe in the use of torture to wring confessions ouot of people who will say anything to stop the pain going on

Bleeding heart

er - rewind here.
Her dad said - he didn't actually see her and assumed she was in another bedroom but didn't check?

where? when? what? how?

source please noddy!

(otherwise whats the bloody point of checking?)

Actually, Desi is right. Even if the police planted evidence or tampered with statements or did anything else that breaks legal technicalities, it doesn't necessarily demonstrate that the previously convicted person didn't actually do the crime.

THing is, mostly the verdicts brought in by courts are correct. Not all of them, because nothing is perfect. But (as with secular democracy in general) the current system may not be perfect, but people have yet to come up with a better alternative.

agree about the family wannabe - they're only saying what we'd expect them to say anyway.

And, I'm not supposed to getting involved in this thread but I suppose I am racking up the posts so that's good.

I'll go back to sitting and watching now.

I think the crucial question is when exactly was this child last seen alive by someone outside the group?

Did she go to the children's club that day? When was she picked up? Did anyone outside the group see her after that?

If I sit in my sitting room tonight, just because I claim I'm not committing a crime, doesn't mean I'm not you know.

I might be. I give you full warning.

But I haven't committed a crime tonight as far as I'm aware.

I haven't, really

think they were at kids clubs till 6-30 everyday then put to bed soon after so the adults could go out in peace. im sure this has been reported quite a few times.

i have not really followed the story right through, to be honest it got on my nerves(overpublisised) and when i heard the kids had been left alone i had no sympathy at all. reading what you just said about him saying she may have moved rooms to get away from the twins crying. does that not seem weird, if you knew they were crying would you leave them? or if you hand any indication that they may wake up and cry would you leave them? also if they did sedate them he would not for one minute suggest she had got up?

sitting in your sitting room is perfectly legal, you may be on a sticky wicket if you stand in your sitting room

I have watched loads of their interviews on the internet and read updates on portugese sites which may sound sad but I was suspicious from day one and got a bit intrigued Will try and find sources and post

i think a lot of parents have been intrigued as so many of us can not understand how anyone could leave children like that.

Not directly related to MM case, but feel that I should point out that GemmiGoatsiwhatevers post is potentially quite inaccurate (last time I checked):

"dna evidence alone cannot be enough to convict. Although dna is unique to an individual, a full piece of dna has 3 billion base pairs. however, a tiny sample of blood is unlikely to show sufficient base pairings to be considered unique"
DNA fingreprinting does not assess any of hte base pairings (directly), DNA fingerprinting is not about the base pairings or primary DNA sequence (directly). Do we know how big the sample was? It is possible to generate an accurate fingerprint from a single hair these days and there can be significantly more DNA in a spec of blood than a single hair. BUT it does depend on how well preserved it is etc.

The FSS can only say it is a likely match"

This is because there is dispute that DNA fingerprints are actually unique.
BUT a mother hires a car and a DNA profile matching that of her daughter is found in that car it would be a 1 in a nliion thousand milllion....chance that it belongs to some other random person. IF there is indeed a blood spec derived from the car which is believed to match Madeleine...which I am not willing to comment on as I did not analyse the samples.

LOL

Is a sticky wicket legal?

"Her dad said when he went to check he didn't actually see her and assumed she had gone into the other bedroom to get away from the twins crying" so one would deliberately go out, and leave one's crying children? [hmmm] where is this statement from the father?

depends how it got sticky

this is my last comment on the McCanns (honest guv)

but if what noddy says is true I sincerely hope they didn't make similar assumptions with their patients ........

so was the man who checked on the kids questioned maybe he could have done something to her and it got out of hand. i know that sounds awfull but these things happen. and one thing i cant get over is if you go away on a family holiday in a group or as a family do you put your kids in kids club all day then bed at 630 to go out and have fun or do you build sandcastles on the beach and sit on the balcony with a bottle of wine or go to the family entertainment bar!!

"was the man who checked on the kids questioned"

Oh no. I'm sure they didn't bother.

I believe that mark warner families put their kids in kids club all day and then go out in the evening to get away from them, but those of us that have never been on an mw holiday couldn't possibly comment as we don't have an idea about these things. so it's been said anyway..

I think this could be what Noddy is referring to