The McCann's are on their way home

[LeilaAndLeo]

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6985454.stm

FFS not another one. It's even on BH this morning. Am I the only person who does not care?

here we go again ffs

If you don't care then why reply to the post?

observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2165457,00.html

This appears to be a much more plausible explanation of everything that has happened, without all the hysterical speculation apparent in some other news sources.

malory etc... just have to ask this...

would you go onto the thread, just for a quick example, about the biggest mosque in Europe to be built in London, and tell them to stop discussing it because

a) it is unecessary
b) will or might irritate someone
c) the subject has been done to death?

You probably won't answer this question, cos you're surely not still watching this thread!

Or are you???????

Good link, Jacanne, I read the Obs this morning and thought it was an interesting counterpoint to some of the more lurid speculation.

For the McCann obsessives who can't be bothered to check, the Observer (not that it is the fount of all wisdom but merely to give you my source) says 'sources close to the investigation' say only 15/20 of the markers you would expect for a full DNA match were present. So the sample is incomplete - probably degraded over time (given the search of the apartment was, bizarrely, not carried out until weeks after the poor child went missing). Apparently the sample from the apartment was blood - and parents should know that children's blood can come from a variety of innocent sources - and the other was not blood. It came from the car interior and could have been related to any item that Madeleine had touched before she went missing. E.g. that soft toy that Kate McCann carries around.

Not really conclusive evidence of guilt, is it?

Unless and until there is hard evidence put into the public domain I'd rather give grieving parents the benefit of the doubt, wouldn't you?

effieperrine - you are not alone there !

Look, none of us know for certain who did what to that poor child. It seems unlikely the parents are involved, but anything is possible.
It may turn out they are as guilty as hell, it may turn out they are not. No one can be sure.

well personally I think they should stay out of the media now. Maybe if they kept a low profile and got on with their lives without the journalists/the campaign manager, people would stop discussing the case and it would come to a conclusion in time.

But I fully expect to see them on GMTV/this morning within the next week.

Time will tell what really happened here, hopefully the truth will come out. i agree with wannabe about it would be better if they stayed out of the media.

no mention that they left their kids alone whilst they went out for the evening. Aren't their twins at risk of poor parenting?

Can we please not leave this alone?

Registering my distaste.

why does a news thread bother you so?

Thanks for starting this thread. I have no access to TV, newspapers, adnthe only website I can use is Mumsnet. Without this thread I would have had no idea!

Prurient and distasteful

hope she is found i do not think the parents have done it but i do not understand why the mum washed her missing little girls teddy

maisym - because it's not about the news. It's about the chance to rake it all up again and speculate endlessly and ad nauseum.

Hold on right now. The content in this thread isn't vile.

It's speculation.

If the people want to speak of this subject, they are allowed right.

I thought so.

Leave the speculators to their speculating.

Please.

Of course its about the news, what a ridiculous thing to say. This particular news story though generates wild speculation and yes it does rake it all up again. Any new developments in the case will undoubtedly rake it all up again and again.
Unavoidable imo.

If I have to say that again I will struggle. Try saying that after a day with 8 guests and untold amounts of wine.

many threads on here are speculation & opinion - this one is no different. A discussion can move in many ways.

Oh my god what a nightmare is all I can comment on all these threads. Really feel for the McCanns.