Anyone watching Madeleine McCann ten years on?

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They're framing it slightly differently now.. 😧 interesting from the bbc...

lilian Don't the police always take that line, in any abduction from indooors they always look to family members first. Not baffling at all, in most cases there is usually a family member involved.

LillianGish I am with you 100%. Every post you have written is important and we all should listen carefully.

Madeleine McCann and her family deserve the help from the Scotland Yard for as long as it takes.

I have boycotted Portugal because of how they conducted this investigation and I am amazed when people take their family away on holiday to this country.

^ Please.
The people of Luz get forgotten in this, the same people who spent hours searching, whose livelihood depended on tourists.
The Portugese police got slated when in the first instance they reacted as many would have done, ie with no sign of a break-in, they thought she had wandered off.

What a childish and poisonous post. You should be ashamed of yourself.

All those local people looking for Madeleine and couldn't find her. I can't believe that the parents spent a few days in a foreign country but found somewhere to hide a body that the locals didn't know about. That doesn't add up. Nor does the way the parents fight to keep the investigation going.

They made a mistake, a horrific error of judgment. They have paid for that in the worst possible way.

Didn't the PJ say the shutters hadn't been tampered with, or have i got that wrong.

Wow, man aren't on the tonight

*mnq ( unlike me)

with no sign of a break-in - what about the forced shutters? Exactly the same sign of forced entry as in three recent break-ins in the same block of apartments. There absolutely was a sign of a break-in, but the police deliberately chose to ignore it.

The PJ said it wasn't possible to tamper with the shutters from the outside - even though they knew it had happened three times in burglaries they were investigating in the same block. Why would they say say that?

Boycotted Portugal becuausr of one crime! That's bonkers. Do you boycott all countries which don't have as well funded a police force as the UK, or do you solely holiday in places where they don't actually need your tourist money!

Well I have no faith in the Portugese Police. I would risk travelling there on my own but I wouldn't take my children. I do watch where I travel with my children I make sure that the country I visit has adequate heath care etc etc...It's up to you how you travel Namey but I do like to take my children on safe holidays.

Do that mean you're on the piss dingit?

Well, it would go a little way to explaining why you thought you might post profoundly unpleasant stuff on MN.

I've had two glasses of wine. Doesn't change what I've thought from the beginning. Hth.

No-one really cares what you think, dingit.

Only the sheep on mumsnet.

Just keep an open mind is the best bet. None of us know what really happened.

not baffling at all It's baffling because there was a far more likely scenario right under the police's noses and they refused to consider it.

Totally right cupid. It's why arguing their obvious innocence is as ridiculous as arguing their obvious guilt.

There isn't anything obvious about this horrific situation.

Just keep an open mind is the best bet - quite. Unfortunately it's too late for the PJ to follow that route.

As far as i know when there's an abduction from a home the police always suspect involvement from a family member. They didn't refuse to consider outside involvement, as far as i know road blocks were set up and searches went on through the night. It's wrong that they should be discredited like this. Why would it be a far mor likely scenario that she'd been abducted, when normally that wouldn't be the case.

I thought you were keeping an open mind.

The reality is that there was no evidence either way. There is no evidence that she was abducted and there was no evidence that the parents were involved. Statistically, one scenario is far more likely than the other, but that doesn't categorically prove anything.

I didn't watch the programme, but it sounds as if everything contained therein was pure speculation. The Portuguese police thought one thing and SY thought something else. And nowhere was there any suggestion of the involvement of paedophile rings other than in the tabloids. The same tabloids who suggested that the children had been drugged and that the family had managed to hide a body for three weeks until they could drive over the border to Spain.

This will presumably just be one of those cases which gets brought up from time to time as one of the biggest unsolved mysteries of our time. And as time goes on more and more speculation will be permitted because the family will lose their power in terms of being able to sue anyone who questions anything other than the story of abduction they have presented as fact.

Surely the main concern should be to establish whether there is a child abductor out there who is a danger to other children?