Every time I see or read something on the McCann case now, I can't help but think 'Heaven help them', what a truly horrific tale this becoming.
I am a cynical mare by nature, but I really struggle to believe that the picture that is being painted can possibly be true. And no doubt like the majority do I want it to be true. At present the claims are that they killed her, hide her body under the world spotlight for 4 weeks then moved her putrifying corpse (cause it would be at that stage in that heat) to it's final resting place? Likely? At present there is no evidence on the case and we must take the McCanns as exactly what they seem, a bereft couple trying to keep their daughter's abduction out there in the news.
But with this nor do I think the Portguese authorities should be being given the hard time that they are over the investigation. This whole mess has been ignited my a media frenzy and ignorance to the Portguese laws than have fuelled speculation in what is quickly becoming a story befitting of the best & worst crime novels.
I am all for freedom of speech but I think there should be a united sensible approach by the world press until the facts become clear.Any time there is a case that captures the nation's heart, the media go into overdrive wrecking lifes in its drive to sell more copies. Again and again we have seen similar situations, Lindy Chamberlain, the Australian mother who's child was snatched by a dingo was was the victom of a terrible miscarriage of jutstice to the more recent case in 2003, when an Edinburgh teenager, Jodi Jones was found murdered. Her boyfriend was later convicted but not without concerns of trial by media and a jury change after the impact of hysterical press coverage.
So let them spend the fund on defending their honour, I am sure no one will grudge the £5 or £10 that they donated. I do not want to watch the grotesque play that is unfolding before us as they lose everything that they have left and become crucifed by the press. It is not a soap opera now, that we can all go to bed happy that the good guy's won. This is a family's life that at present we only know they made a simple mistake that has tragically cost them their daughter.
At the moment I feel regardless of what comes out now, they are damned. The path of suspicion has now been laid, with the only thing that will now rectify this sorry state of affairs, is the return of Madeline safe and sound. Which despite all the lurid tales and amateur detective work at the coffee machine , is what we all wanted from Day 1.
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Hmm. Well, I have to say, I think to be fair they were given a bloody good run in the press- the sort of positive coverage they got considering they left the kids in the unlocked apartment while they sodded off for a meal was astounding, and only took place because they are a middle-class white family, two of whom are respectable doctors. Had they been a rough family the press coverage would have been very different.
I think they've had far and away a lot more sympathy than they deserve. A child goes missing every day in the UK, yet only Madeliene received that much attention, which is kind of in poor taste considering how many other disappearances there are at any one time.
I don't think they're being stitched up at all, if there is evidence there then let's hear it; it's not unusual for a death to be covered up and the person responsible to go on a press-offensive, I can think of at least two other occassions in recent years where that has happened.
Obviously they deserve to be innocent until proven guilty, but if indeed it is proven that they accidentally killed her, then they deserve to be flamed for starting a huge fund to find her imo.
oh I agree, that there has been a lot swept under the carpet, and if they have put on a performance to the world media, they should fry..
I don't particulary like them and I find them cold and what could be stated their arrogance and self deemed right to push it in our faces is annoying , but all the speculation is awful.
Taking things at face value, they left her alone, but they didn't deserve to have her snatched. And at present there is nothing to truly say they killed her, so the reporting should be a bit more responsible.. Or am I just getting a bit soft today??!
And I agree on the press offensive too, Ian Huntley did it, so did that nutter with the road rage killing of her boyfriend, but everything at the moment is specualtion, from un-named sources or papers reporting on other papers stories and feeding each other's hysteria. christ - there isn't even a body at this stage!
They've found blood traces in their hire car and evidence that her dead body was in the apartment. Read both on bbc news this morning. I read somewhere- sky maybe, not sure- that they think her body may have been dumped in the sea.
This much emphasis should not have been put on the case in the first place, yes its awful if a child goes missing but far, far more atrocious things happen in the middle east every day.
There hasn't been any comclusive statement to what was in the car - blood, body fluids or hair are all reported.
I agree it has been given too much air time and a lot of kids go missing every day. A family friend's son went missing (and was killed) a few years ago near me and it hardly made National news. :-(
putting on my detective hat - I think it was the family back home that started the fund & find maddie stuff. the Mccanns couldn't have forecasted this size of coverage. Especially if they did it.. a sorry mess.
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