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Madeleine McCann

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morningpaper · 11/09/2007 20:49

Instead of starting lots of new posts about Madeleine, could I politely request that anyone who wants to post on the subject please post on this one thread? (N.B. Duplicate threads may be flamed hysterically.)

Please note that this thread is not to criticise Madeleine's parents or family, as this is not in the spirit of Mumsnet.

Please can I take the liberty to quote from this article:

"This is the real life of Kate and Gerry McCann, and it must now have become a place of agony beyond all understanding. Pity them, if you have any compassion at all, and demonstrate the minimum of grace: the ability to desist from judgment."

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beansprout · 12/09/2007 21:16

I thought that too!

jooleybee · 12/09/2007 21:17

I mean 'Lucy' here bloody here !!!!

welshdeb · 12/09/2007 21:18

Oh thats what I like reasoned argument.

If you read her father's blog he couldn't spell it either.

oliveoil · 12/09/2007 21:20

yes, they made an error of judgement

but how many people go on holiday and leave their children alone? or in the care of a 'listening device' (eg bored receptionist)

lots and lots and lots and lots

(not me as my two like to wake up and wail every hour or two , so I am on a ball and chain but that is another thread)

jooleybee · 12/09/2007 21:20

Can I stop you in your tracks..... What is this with the diary lark?

Rhubarb · 12/09/2007 21:20

oliveoil - may I interest you in a flange of pixies?

oliveoil · 12/09/2007 21:22

no I am full of elves atm Rhubarb, thanks anyway

oh, and what do I hear? dd2 wailing on

told you

DarrellRivers · 12/09/2007 21:22

And people have offered the services of a 'babysitter'in a hotel.
Bored teenager, or who knows.....
I would rather check back every 30mins than trust someone I had never met.

WideWebWitch · 12/09/2007 21:22

Well said Oliveoil

prettybird · 12/09/2007 21:22

To requote again from Jonathon Friedland, "none of us knows. Until we do, basic justice demands that we presume the McCanns are wholly innocent. Common decency demands the same. For if they are eventually found guilty, there will be plenty of time for condemnation. But if they are innocent, to presume otherwise is to commit a second crime against people who have already suffered enough."

This speculation is pointless and hurtful. We don't know - and regurgitating speculation garnered from all over the internet serves waht purpose exactly?
the true situation

Rhubarb · 12/09/2007 21:23

www, would you like one?

Kathyis6incheshigh · 12/09/2007 21:23

Check your facts Welshdeb.
Not that you seem to be very interested in facts

WideWebWitch · 12/09/2007 21:23

Btw, did I hear a rumour that mnhq had said no slagging off of the family? If so, marvelous, I'll be off reporting people left right and centre.

HorribleHorace · 12/09/2007 21:24

my brother and i were left sleeping on every single holiday my parents ever took us on, so they tell me. They didn't see anything wrong with it. Obviously with hindsight it probably wasn't the greatest idea but it was just very, very bad luck. What are the chances of a child being adbucted? Even to have an accident when you know they always sleep through isn't that likely...
(not saying it's impossible but not that likely)

I really feel that all you people who like to sit in judgement and feel superior about your own parenting need to take a step back. Who are you helping by harping on about something which has already been and gone?

WideWebWitch · 12/09/2007 21:24

Quite prettybird

Rhubarb, what, a gun to shoot myself with?

lucyellensmum · 12/09/2007 21:25

what is wrong with you people, her father couldnt spell what??

LEM slaps everyone around the head with a dead salmon

dinny · 12/09/2007 21:26

of COURSE they haven't done it - absolutely NO way IMO.

Rhubarb · 12/09/2007 21:26

No, a pixie for a pet. I'm selling off a few, I've got a whole flange of them atm.

jooleybee · 12/09/2007 21:26

wow prettybird. But this doesnt stop the ordinary (me) who is so wrapped up in case thinking well hang on a minute! What do I believe.

oliveoil · 12/09/2007 21:26

my mum said that when they stayed on holiday camps (classy my family) all the adults used to go to the bar and a member of staff would stroll around 'checking' - listening - on the children in chalets

would they arrest the whole site today?

Pedanticandproud · 12/09/2007 21:27

Prettybird, to say that the McCanns were in error to leave their children home alone is not the same thing as thinking they killed their daughter.

I think there is a valid debate to be had around the child protection issues.

Now isn't the time to have recriminations, but a debate around when it is acceptable to leave your children alone? Why not?

oliveoil · 12/09/2007 21:27

isn't a flange a word for a fanjo?

if so, what are pixies doing in there?

Rhubarb · 12/09/2007 21:28
fabbylucesmum · 12/09/2007 21:28

To lucyellensmum...

It is not useful or relevant to resort to telling others to fark off. I take it that was partially aimed at me. At least I have not resorted to being outright rude as you have been.

Rhubarb · 12/09/2007 21:28

Ah well, we decided that the collective noun for a group of pixies was a flange.

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