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Anyone watching the Mccann documentary

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blinkingthreetimes · 30/04/2008 20:37

It's very sad just broke my heart when Kate said how worried she was about her been cold

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DirtySexyMummy · 30/04/2008 21:43

You imagine she won't be found now, although with stories like that Fritzel guy with the children locked in the cellar, you can imagine she may well be being kept somewhere, alive.

Maddie is so beautiful, she really looks like her mother as well.

Those poor, poor people. So

DirtySexyMummy · 30/04/2008 21:51

I am confused.

Why would the Portugese police leak the statements on the day the McCanns are trying to do something to protect children all over Europe? Why would they ever do that?

Oh my god this is awful. So, so unbelievably sad.

Frizbe · 30/04/2008 21:53

because they're corrupt

expatinscotland · 30/04/2008 21:54

stranger things have happened.

until there's concrete evidence otherwise, they have to go on hoping and looking.

that's the awful thing when a person goes missing.

there is nothing sweeter than the smile of a 3-year-old child.

PictureThis · 30/04/2008 21:57

God I hope they get their baby back

themildmanneredjanitor · 30/04/2008 21:57

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DirtySexyMummy · 30/04/2008 22:01

But why Frizbe?

Corruption in that they are 'in' on abductions? Why would they want to stop media attention to a plight to try to help abducted children?

MrsMattie · 30/04/2008 22:02

I couldn't watch it. I find the whole thing too upsetting. Those poor people.

Frizbe · 30/04/2008 22:05

DSM when this all originally happened, there was a huge thread on this, including info from a reporter for a major paper, who had been investigating a pedo ring, in portugal,with memebers who went all the way up, through the police and parliment They'd been abducting the poor and kids from orphanages etc and abusing them At the time, I think some people were punished for it and others got away with it. From the way the way the whole thing has been handled, I sure wouldn't trust all of them to do the job properly, hell they've even replaced their own investigative team, as they admitted there were issues with them. But that's just my opinion.

nikos · 30/04/2008 22:06

You know, though when there are paedophile rings exposed there are often a lot of people in authority involved. It's not beyond the realms for some such group of people to organise a smear campaign. It would be a great death knell to paed rings if there was a euro alert scheme. A lot of vested financial and immoral interests would be damaged and these things are notoriously spread across countries.

BigGitHamsterKillingDad · 30/04/2008 22:08

So sad, to me Kate looks haunted by the whole experience. Poor family.

popstar · 30/04/2008 22:35

Here is a way we can all do just a little bit to help something positive to come out of the McCanns' tragedy.

PictureThis · 30/04/2008 22:39

Popstar, funnily enough, I had just read that link.

popstar · 30/04/2008 22:44

Bumping it like mad, PT. The documentary showed very clearly how much this is needed and it's also some small way to show support for Kate and Gerry. It obviously means a lot to them to be able to use the whole horrible situation for some good. Please sign- takes a minute if you're proficient at cutting and pasting. Thanks

hellish · 30/04/2008 22:48

what channel?

PictureThis · 30/04/2008 22:51

It was on ITV1. It finished at 10 pm though. I'm sure it will be repeated at some stage.

shinyshoes · 30/04/2008 22:53

shit I forgot this was on, I was too busy browsing the net .
I really wanted to watch this as well.

Remotew · 30/04/2008 22:59

It was on for two hours. Watched some of it. The family are trying to do something which is there driving force in all this tragedy. I hope they get some closure at some point but I fear this will never happen and they will go the end not knowing. At least they have the twins to live for.

MummyPenguin · 01/05/2008 08:20

It was very sad to watch. You really feel for them. It made me think too, because at one time, I may have been somewhat in the 'they shouldn't have left them' camp but as Gerry explained, the baby listening service offered on the complex was just a member of staff listening at doors of which there where children in the apartments, and the McCann's and friends decided to do that themselves. As Gerry said, the difference was that they were actually going into the room. Perhaps the resort baby listening is a little more frequent, what is it, every 15 mins or so? But you know what? It still could have happened, if the perpetrator had been watching and knew exactly when to move in. They still could have got her out in 15 mins. It's the 'what if's' that must be unbearable. Like Kate was saying, they were even going to go to the other restaurant that night, but didn't. It's just a horrible horrible thing to have happened. I really hope they have a happy outcome.

SheikYerbouti · 01/05/2008 08:40

I was thi8mnkinga baout this last nigh (I onlyu watched aboy 10 mins oif it, and then enede up watching a prog abouyt fanjos )

What I did see was v upsetting, and I am normally a cold fish about stuff like this.

I bet non of us can hold our hand up and say that we have never put our child in a situation of vulnerablity, can we? I have left DS1 in the garden for a few second while getting washing out of the machine, a few seconds, yes, but thats's all it takes. Anyone can get into our garden.

I justy saw them on GMTV - Fiona holier than thou phillips said something about "surely you can see what peolep are saying about you laeaven them?" I don;t reeally see how thatr's helpful tbh - what's done is done. Yes they were undenaibly naive, even stupid, to leave their children, and it's something that needs to be discussed, BUT I feel it's taklen too much focus of nthis investigation.

I feel desperately sorry for them. What I saw on that doco were 2 desperately broken parents.

PictureThis · 01/05/2008 09:40

Fiona Phillips drives me up the wall anyway. She asked the McCanns some really silly questions this morning!! Not once did she mention the Amber Alert system, just asked dross like 'will you ever stop looking for Madeleine?' !!

SheikYerbouti · 01/05/2008 10:07

She's fecking useless.

She constantly moans about her job - because being paid as much as her is so hard

It's proof that shagging your way to the top is successful

MummyPenguin · 01/05/2008 12:20

I didn't see them on GMTV. Doesn't surprise me that Fiona Phillips asked questions like that. They know now that they shouldn't have left them, they made a desicion, one mistake and they paid dearly for it. They don't need it reiterated over and over again. The only good to have come out of it is that they'll never do it again, and it will make other parents think twice too.

moreJellothanJlo · 01/05/2008 17:33

some of us don't need to think twice, it wouldn't have occured to me to go out and leave young toddlers alone

keepcalmandcarryon · 01/05/2008 18:57

didn't see the documentary but saw newspaper coverage this weekend. DD3 is much the same age as Madeleine, and when the case started they looked very similar in hair style, colouring and so on, so much so that we received many hard stares when out with DD. Now my reaction seeing the photos from a year ago in the paper is that Madeleine looks really young. I have seen DD grow up, the McCanns are in this dreadful limbo.

Such a sad situation. Have done MEP link thing.

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