Anyone watching Madeleine McCann ten years on?

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

justintime What a remarkable lack of insight and empathy you're showing there.

i hope she gets the justice she deserves. Thats all i'm saying.
And so it begins. The snide throwing of shade.

Proud of yourself?

justintime well that is your opinion.

To me she has looked broken many, many times.

Ergh this is getting weird.

I hope the family find some peace one day, I really do.

'The truth ... seems as far away as ever'

Programme ends

was it normal for parents on holiday to leave children and go to dinner then?

Watched the final 25 mins. Dreadful programme. Just rubbish. Quite frankly what is the bbc doing showing this, nothing new, nothing added.

Oh. But at last common sense from sue hill. People have done everything they can.,

I do feel for the other children who have gone missing, I always think about Ben needham. I don't understand what was so special about this case. Obviously I hope that she and the other children are somehow safe.

So, justintime, you know more about how Kate McCann looked than TattiePants who actually saw her in person at the time? The reality is that you are just one of those prurient types who likes to make out you know what happened, when the reality is all you know is what you've read.

Well there are certainly always fucking stupid posters who fail to understand the 'no speculation' rule. Is it really that difficult to refrain, so a MM thread can stand? FFS!

It happened and was and is horrific. Not sure what that programme aimed to do as surely nothing new will come out now? It's so very sad.
In answer to the leaving a child debate I do think it was more common back then but there's nothing to be gained by taking about it m.

I have seen lots of cases of missing abducted and murdered children over the years.
I am not aware that is is routine to prosecute the parents for neglect however much neglect was a part of their child's loss or death.

It is always used as a reason to dislike the MCs.
It is just not true.

When a child goes missing or dies it is very unusual for the parents to be charged. And there have been many cases where children have gone missing whilst they were being 'inadequately' supervised.

Think of all the cases where mothers knowingly allow dangerous men into their children's lives.
In many of the high profile cases the men had long histories of dodgy behaviour.
The mothers are not prosecuted for neglect
Three year old children allowed out to buy ice cream and snatched and murdered. Were the parents prosecuted? Not to my knowledge and they lived on a council estate.

Believe they did it or don't believe they did but please stop saying if they were common they would have been arrested for neglect and their other children removed or they would have been badly treated by the press.
I dont think a couple could have more disgusting things said about them by otherwise normal people than the MCs have.

What does it matter, AntiGrinch? Trying to insinuate it is all their fault is victim-blaming of the worst type.

To believe the abduction theory is to speculate.

What 'MrsDV* said.

but there was so little emotion from either of them.
Are you kidding? I thought they looked devastated and in shock. Really hope they can find out. Poor little girl.

Easy Living magazine (which was discontinued four years ago) did carry a long and heartbreaking interview with Kerry Needham. Which reignited the case in ppls memories again.

I don't "believe" any of the theories bandied about.

If anyone really knows what happened then there would be a mystery anymore, would there?

None of us has a fucking clue what happened to that poor child and I feel dreadfully sorry for her parents and siblings.

Where is the compassion for others' suffering?

I think the McCanns looked devastated and like they hadnt slept for years.

but there was so little emotion from either of them

So, they can only receive your sympathy if they perform for you like circus animals?

Why is it not possible to have an issue with how it's been presented and how the press talk about things without it automatically being classed as speculation? Yet people can talk about the official events and that doesn't count. Even though, comments about the press and handling have nothing to do with passing blame or judgement on the situation.

I didn't watch it but my heart still goes out to the parents after all these years. Every parent's worst nightmare. I'm sure they will always blame themselves.

Anti - no it wasn't, which is what (rightly or wrongly) a lot of people found baffling. On the other hand, I often left mine alone (asleep in his cot) in an unlocked, ground floor flat open to the street, to take rubbish to the communal rubbish room several doors down. Safe estate, where we all knew each other and there were few passersby.

And a few years before that almost everyone left their ginormaprams outside shops.

Baby listening services were very commonplace, but I don't think they would offer much protection against a determined intruder unless they made a lot of noise.

was it common for parents on holiday to leave children and go to dinner then

I think so. My DSis is a couple of years older than Maddie and my parents left her in the hotel room while we went to the restaurant on the same floor. My parent's friends did the same, and a lot of my friends (70s/80s children) were left in holiday homes while their parents were at dinner or evening entertainment.

but there was so little emotion from either of them I've heard people make stupid, ignorant comments like this about people at their own family member's funeral. As though there is a criteria that has to be met. I hardly showed any emotion at my mother's funeral. I was absolutely devastated and still am but I was in shock and trie hard to keep myself together for my family and so I could give my mum a funeral. How fare people dare to comment on their level of emotion.

'Expat my gp is in one of those series grin'

I applaud them. I would not have the patience.

Now I'm watching Confessions of a Junior Doctor on +1. Aw, the baby's okay! I'm glad I never needed a CS, though. That looks brutal.