Cops Suspect Parents In Missing British Girl Case

quite ironic imo that the title of this thread is quite right as applied to a completely different british family

Steve 41oo wrote:

quite ironic imo that the title of this thread is quite right as applied to a completely different british family

Isn't it obvious that the allegations are an attempt to protect the West Yorkshire tourism industry?

Portugal Prosecutors Get Final Madeleine Report, May Close Case
(By Jim Silver, Bloomberg, July 1, 2008)

Portuguese prosecutors received the final police report on Madeleine McCann, a British girl who disappeared from a resort just before her fourth birthday, and will review it before deciding whether to close the case.

Prosecutors will assess the dozens of volumes in the report to determine whether additional investigation is needed, the Attorney General's Office in Lisbon said in an e-mailed statement today. There won't be any announcement before mid-August, the agency said.

Madeleine vanished from her family's vacation apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal's Algarve region on May 3, 2007. Her parents, doctors Gerry and Kate McCann, began an international campaign to find their daughter. They hired a campaign manager, posted videos on YouTube and distributed ``Find Madeleine'' wristbands globally.

The McCanns were named by police as suspects in September. They have denied any involvement in the disappearance of their daughter, who went missing while they dined with friends in a resort restaurant near the apartment.

Police want to close the case after agreeing with prosecutors that there isn't enough evidence to charge anyone, Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha reported today, without saying where it obtained the information.

I dont believe this terrible case will ever end for the McCanns. But for the rest of us...life goes on. We work rest and go on holiday with the family. To nice places like Praia de Luz. Where there isnt a child predator on the loose...well there was some case a while back but no one was caught...because the parents were suspected and fled back to England. Probably got away with murder.

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Now deny thats how a lot of people will remember this case. And isnt that what was intended by naming them as suspects but doing nothing more?

Steve 41oo wrote:

I dont believe this terrible case will ever end for the McCanns. But for the rest of us...life goes on. We work rest and go on holiday with the family. To nice places like Praia de Luz. Where there isnt a child predator on the loose...well there was some case a while back but no one was caught...because the parents were suspected and fled back to England. Probably got away with murder.

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Now deny thats how a lot of people will remember this case. And isnt that what was intended by naming them as suspects but doing nothing more?

I figure that the police know that one or both parents did it but can't prove it in court, and that by giving the statements that they have law enforcement is penalizing the parents as best they can. As I have said before normally in a case like this it is the parents who who killed the kid, if the police think that this was what happened here that is good enough for me. The parents are free to walk the streets because the case could not be made, and we are free to think that they probably did do it.

I rest my case.

....now listen. The McCanns are totally totally innocent. Not only have they lost their beautiful daughter to a child snatcher still on the loose in the Algarve, but to protect the tourist trade they have been outrageously branded as "official suspects".

Oh, lord, do we have to do this whole thread again?

I figure that the police know that one or both parents did it but can't prove it in court, and that by giving the statements that they have law enforcement is penalizing the parents as best they can. As I have said before normally in a case like this it is the parents who who killed the kid, if the police think that this was what happened here that is good enough for me. The parents are free to walk the streets because the case could not be made, and we are free to think that they probably did do it.

The McCanns are totally totally innocent. Not only have they lost their beautiful daughter to a child snatcher still on the loose in the Algarve, but to protect the tourist trade they have been outrageously branded as "official suspects".

hawkeye10 wrote:

I figure that the police know that one or both parents did it but can't prove it in court, and that by giving the statements that they have law enforcement is penalizing the parents as best they can. As I have said before normally in a case like this it is the parents who who killed the kid, if the police think that this was what happened here that is good enough for me. The parents are free to walk the streets because the case could not be made, and we are free to think that they probably did do it.

Steve 41oo wrote:

The McCanns are totally totally innocent. Not only have they lost their beautiful daughter to a child snatcher still on the loose in the Algarve, but to protect the tourist trade they have been outrageously branded as "official suspects".

Well, that's two possible truths. Interesting to see people assert their version of things with such certainty, when neither of you really have any substantial evidence that you are right.

Truth is, it is not proven that the parents did it, which is why they are going free, and it is also not proven that they did not do it. Truth is that most likely, we wont ever find out what really happened.

The ironclad certainty with which you claim to know what happened is, in that light, interesting psychologically. But it doesnt really mean anything beyond that.

hawkeye10 wrote:

I figure that the police know that one or both parents did it but can't prove it in court, and that by giving the statements that they have law enforcement is penalizing the parents as best they can. As I have said before normally in a case like this it is the parents who who killed the kid, if the police think that this was what happened here that is good enough for me. The parents are free to walk the streets because the case could not be made, and we are free to think that they probably did do it.

Steve 41oo wrote:

The McCanns are totally totally innocent. Not only have they lost their beautiful daughter to a child snatcher still on the loose in the Algarve, but to protect the tourist trade they have been outrageously branded as "official suspects".

Well, that's two possible truths. Interesting to see people assert their version of things with such certainty, when neither of you really have any substantial evidence that you are right.

Truth is, it is not proven that the parents did it, which is why they are going free, and it is also not proven that they did not do it. Truth is that most likely, we wont ever find out what really happened.

The ironclad certainty with which you claim to know what happened is, in that light, interesting psychologically. But it doesnt really mean anything beyond that.

This is funny. Both steve and hawkeye don't like what nimh said. Maybe nimh has a point.

This is funny. Both steve and hawkeye don't like what nimh said. Maybe nimh has a point.