Anyone watching Channel 5's Under Suspicion Kate McCann?

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It was on last night

Contradictions in statements is entirely expected and actually very normal. Phone your friend or relative and asked them exactly what happened last time they saw you - I guarantee your stories won’t correlate 100% and each of you will raise things the other had completely forgotten.

I watched that documentary. The more I think of it the more I think it was a tragic accident as I’ve said before. Unless they can dig for the body on the hill where she’s supposedly buried they’ll never find her. Their behaviour running and playing tennis after the death was weird.

Exactly. It’s really hard to get entirely accurate versions or a timeline just by taking statements. By triangulating information in a reconstruction, it can improve the level of accuracy and can also jog people’s memories.

Reconstruction are usually the norm. They didn’t want one …why? Because it’s not as being told I’d guess.

Do you mean the one in Portugal? Well would you attend a reconstruction in a different country which had threatened you in interview previously (they accused a member of the group of participating in the abduction with no proof), with little clarification as to the purpose of it, when you have small children at home? I wouldn’t.

They didn't provide the hair samples in a timely manner as requested by the police or using the specified method.

That seems like a very likely reason.

Completely usual to undertake a reconstruction. If you were under suspicion, but knew your innocence, what possible motivation could you have to refuse?

The naivety of people who assume the police always get it right.

Her book says their friends were open to it but wanted to seek legal advice first, but by the time they did this the plan was abandoned. I don’t think they refused but they felt uneasy and wanted legal advice before attending, which was understandable given everything that had happened.

I don’t believe anyone here would happily ping off to another country and hand themselves over to the jurisdiction while leaving their kids back home, knowing that jurisdiction had been making wild accusations and already arrested innocent people.

The irony...

Not wanting to put yourself back in the hands of a police force and criminal justice system with (1) very different procedures to any you’re accustomed to, (2) which has acknowledged many failings re securing the crime scene, not informing border or marine police, and not setting up roadblocks immediately, leaking confidential information to journalists etc (3) which has named you as a formal suspect?

the McCanns also had their friends tramping in and out of the apartment which seems a strange thing to do if you’re totally convinced that it’s a crime scene because your child has been abducted by a stranger…

Have you listened yet to it ? You believe what you want the fact those two left their poor kids when Madeline cried at being left. Kate washed her kids bloody toy afterward FFS who would do that ! I still believe they had something to do with it and you won’t change my mind so take your views and elsewhere!

I’m the same as you after seeing that video with the detective. McCanns have friends in high places and so will never be convicted. I still think it was a tragic accident. I mean honestly who leaves the twins and takes a young girl instead? A young who’s known to have trouble sleeping and the neighbour heard her cries for an hour or so the day before at night. I think it was night.

"McCanns have friends in high places and so will never be convicted.".

What friends in high places do or did they have? I didn't get that impression at all.

And even then who would actually risk perverting the course of justice or similar for a fairly tenuous friendship? There’s a thread running where somebody is being told they’re not being unreasonable for not wanting to lend a friend 2k.

They are doctors, they know what happens with hair samples.
Why did they delay offering a hair sample for so long?

Watch the documentary with Norwegian detective.

Gerry was a medical advice to the Government quango committee Comare, also on the Committee was Gordon Brown's brother who worked at EDF Energy, I believe Gordon was also involved. Gordon's other brother lived in same road as McCanns friend. When Madeleine went missing they were on the phone to Blairs and Brown and Gerry also worked for a time at Celtic FC, would have been there at the time abuse was taking place, Jimmy Savile was a visitor to Celtic FC and also former Home Secretary John Reid, so possible he would also have met important people there too.

I'm unclear as to what you imagine the be the relevance of GMcC working at Celtic while abuse was taking place, or Jimmy Savile visiting the club?

Watch the podcast with the detective. The last post wasn’t mine, taken from elsewhere.