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I cannot believe how many people are taking a "holier than thou" attitude and condemning the McCanns for leaving the children alone - even though they were checking on them regularly. Can you honestly say you have never taken any risks in your life? Never done anything that you might regret? Let's look at the chances of something happening in a situation like this. Every summer, thousands of families go on holiday to similar resorts. In the evenings, they may put their children to bed and go down to have dinner, knowing that the resort nannies do rounds of all the rooms every 15 minutes to listen out for any children who are awake. If your children sleep soundly and don't have the tendency to stick things into electric sockets for example, the risk is very low that anything will happen to them. If on the other hand they are restless sleepers who may well wake up and either get frightened or do something dangerous, then you would probably not do it because of that risk. You can never guarantee safety, and just think of years gone by when children would go off to play out of parental sight for any amount of time. Did they all get snatched? Of course they didn't. This is a (thankfully) rare occurrence and it is absolutely unfair to take this sort of smug, sanctimonious attitude towards people who have been to hell and still aren't back again.

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I cannot believe how many people are taking a "holier than thou" attitude and condemning the McCanns for leaving the children alone - even though they were checking on them regularly. Can you honestly say you have never taken any risks in your life?

 

The risks that they took were not only in their life, but with the lives of their children.

 

This is a (thankfully) rare occurrence and it is absolutely unfair to take this sort of smug, sanctimonious attitude towards people who have been to hell and still aren't back again.

 

Are we forgetting about Maddie. She is the one who has suffered the worst surely, whilst the parents gadded around the world trying to find her.

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Let's look at the chances of something happening in a situation like this. Every summer, thousands of families go on holiday to similar resorts. In the evenings, they may put their children to bed and go down to have dinner, knowing that the resort nannies do rounds of all the rooms every 15 minutes to listen out for any children who are awake.

 

Well it would appear that the Mccanns didnt check every 15 mins or even every 30 mins, and the link below shows just how far the unlocked appartment was from where they enjoyed their evening meal, a far cry from going downstairs in a hotel to eat having left your children in a locked room. regularly checked by Nannies.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pag.....ge_id=1811

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/06/nmaddy306.xml

Kate McCann is said to be concerned about being interviewed by police.

The source said: “Kate has been told that she is being interviewed as a witness and will remain a witness for the course of the afternoon.â€

Mrs McCann was joined by top Lisbon lawyer Carlos Pinto de Abreu who arrived in Praia da Luz yesterday morning.

The couple is looking into whether the fighting fund to help find Madeleine will be able to pay for his legal advice.

 

Never done anything that you might regret?

 

I wonder what real regrets Kate McCann has.

 

That's if sociopaths feel regret at all.

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Kate and Gerry McCann last week admitted for the first time they have considered a return to Britain, more than three months after their daughter disappeared in Praia da Luz.

But a senior police source revealed last night that they have advised the McCanns that now is “not the right time†to leave, because of a “change†in the direction of the investigation.

Mr Sousa said that detectives have a “positive feeling†about the inquiry and that the picture of what happened to the four-year-old on the night she disappeared is becoming clearer.

He revealed it was four weeks ago that detectives decided Madeleine was probably dead - before British sniffer dogs were sent out to help the inquiry.

He said: “Before the searches by the English dogs, one of the tasks carried out in the investigation allowed us to see some consistency in this line of investigation. “The hypothesis has been on the table for some time, and is stronger than the others.â€

Mr Sousa also revealed detectives believe more than one person was involved in what happened to Madeleine.

detectives leading the inquiry are now focusing on the belief that Madeleine has died, possibly by accident in the apartment on the night she disappeared.

A senior police source said: "They say that abduction is no longer the main lead and that accidental death is the strongest theory they are working on.

The father of Madeleine McCann yesterday appealed to the media to end its obsession with his daughter's disappearance.

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"Obviously a very long time has passed, but we will do everything we can to make sure Madeleine does not become a statistic.

 

Fishy, fishy, fishy.

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One of the pieces of evidence is that a page in the McCann's bible from a passage in Samuel about having to tell a man his child is dead is crumpled.

Well that's.....conclusive.

 

I've been trying not to comment on this until details of the forensic evidence come out, but at the moment it reeks of the police trying to take the focus off their own mishandled, almost farcical "investigation".

 

I may well be proven wrong.

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The main focus of the inquiry is a small and degraded sample of blood found on the floor of the Praia da Luz holiday flat that matches perfectly, but incompletely, Madeleine's DNA profile
Some reports have already spoken of blood found not only in the flat, but in a car that they rented more than two weeks after Madeleine went missing. Others, elaborating on the theme, have suggested the police suspect Kate of having some connection with the death of her daughter and of then possible transporting her body. 'All completely false,' a senior source close to the investigation told The Observer yesterday, saying that no blood at all had been found in the car and that a DNA sample taken from its interior, though still a likely match for Madeleine, could have come from just about any item with which the McCanns' daughter had come into contact in the days before she vanished.
But sources close to the team handling Madeleine's disappearance say that a further reason for the Portuguese police's sudden shift of focus is that they have concerns about alleged contradictions in the accounts of her disappearance given by her parents and their friends in the first days of the investigation.
From "The Guardian Unlimited"
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