Anyone watching Madeleine McCann ten years on?

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

" Kate McCann having her highlights redone and going shopping for new clothes in the days after Madeleine's disappearance "

frankly if I was having paps taking my pic every five minutes I would probably do the same.

frankly if I was having paps taking my pic every five minutes I would probably do the same.
In normal circumstances me too......
if my child had gone missing?
I wouldn't care if i looked like the most hideous creature that ever existed, i don't think i'd be capable of trying tbh.

OK . first cut, I agree with you, but some people are vainer and colder. Even so , they still lost a child,

but being bothered about how you look?
I bought more clothes and skin care during my dd's illness, even when she was terminal, and after her death than at any other point in my life.

It was how I stopped myself from losing control.

I have noticed that people do love to romanticise the death/loss of a child. They have little day dreams about how picturesquely distraught they would be if it happened to them.

They would be undone because they love their child so much they couldn't survive without them.

Which means that those of us who do not drop down dead when we lose our child simply didn't love them enough.

MrsDV.

Not experienced it MrsDV - but, yes, I think I'd be the same.

So far in my life, when I'm going through something traumatic, I do take care of my appearance. It's a way of maintaining control, not losing it, not losing myself.

She also had to keep it together, and concentrate on the search for Madeleine. Plus, she was hardly caked in make up and designer clothing - my understanding was she needed to shop for more clothes because the weather was getting warmer and they'd packed for a week's holiday.

I could get with the obsessive axe grinders a tiny bit if, whenever they were asked to expand on their views, they didn't reveal a nasty core of spite.

Remember the Peter Falconio case? His girlfriend (who also suffered trial by the world's media) faced exactly the same criticism.

Sort of, how dare you wear make up and a cheeky pink top when your boyfriend's been murdered?? You must be guilty It was only when they actually caught the guy who did it that they all laid off her.

Well said MrsDV and sorry for the loss of your dd.
Nobody can know how they'd handle a situation.

Agreed MrsDevere

The evening of the day my mum died, the whole family went out for a meal in a lovely restaurant where we talked, joked and laughed. That morning i'd held my my mum as she took her last breaths, washed and changed her body, combed her hair for the undertaker as her appearance was always so important to her.

How can people be so ignorant and callous.

I think a lot of people doubt their innocence, that is all..... for a variety of reasons, more a need for justice to be seen to be done. Nothing callous about it.

What a God awful post.

"Nothing callous about it."

And if they are innocent - you'd feel good about the ongoing kicking they recieve? Leave it to the authorities.

Everyone is innocent until proven otherwise by a jury !!

My best friend died in her bed while I was with her. Minutes later I had to get my kids from school.

I was I.n a whirlwind, a bubble, perhaps even more cheerful with them than normal.

DO NOT judge until you have been there.

Shurely shome mishtake MrsDV, because we've clearly heard from a bunch of self appointed experts what the normal response to losing a child is. You must be in error.

experts, experts everywhere.....

Yep armchair detective keyboard warrior experts

What a God awful post
Nothing at all awful about it, people do have doubts, those that have read up on it all anyway. Ridiculous not to keep an open mind imo.

Those people with doubts, however, do not currently include the PJ, or the Met police - you know, the people that actually have been doing the investigations. You might want to think about that.

They've been ruled out as "arguidos" , but judges specified this does not equate to their innocence, just that prosecutors hadn't managed to get sufficient evidence. There is a difference. You might want to think about that.

In this Country innocent until proven guilty

Do you think like that about the criminals roaming the streets of Britain Portia, who commit crimes that don't even get to court. I could be burgled tonight and he gets away with it. I certainly won't think "innocent till proven guilty".

That's the law isnt it

Quite - plus the judge ruled that in Amaral's book libel hearing- ruling that it was a matter of free speech.

To infer that that has any bearing on the actual evidence of the investigation into the actual disappearance would be a big mistake. (Grasping at straws really). The PJ are no longer investigating the McCanns, and the Met police on re-opening the case have immediately ruled them out. You might want to think about that.