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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/13/madeleine-mccann-british-police-arrests-portugal

 

 

British police are reportedly preparing the ground to make the first arrests in their investigations into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

A spokesman for Madeleine's parents told the Daily Mirror that police were ready to arrest and interview "key suspects". Scotland Yard confirmed that it had sent an international letter of request to the Portuguese authorities but would not elaborate on its contents.

However, the Mirror said officers were preparing to fly to the Algarve on Sunday night to speak to three burglars who carried out raids in the Portuguese resort where Madeleine, then three years old, vanished on 3 May 2007.

The Metropolitan police launched its own investigation into her disappearance in July last year and in October, when new developments in the case were put to air on the BBC Crimewatch programme, officers said they were seeking to track down the people behind a series of burglaries around the Ocean Club complex, mainly in the early months of 2007. There was also an incident almost exactly a year before the abduction when children in a ground-floor apartment saw an intruder break in through a patio door and stare into a travel cot, stealing nothing.

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Whoever this guy is, he has no idea the media shitstorm that's about to hit him. And I'd give him about 3 hours in prison before someone does him, when it comes to that. Most high profile case in this country for the past decade this one...

 

I appreciate they're just arresting suspects, but you'd think the dominoes should fall now.

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There is a good chance it was accidental death while the child was left alone and the parents cooked up this story. The whole thing with the sniffer dogs is the most compelling aspect for me...They indicated cadaver positives in the bedroom cupboard and in the car.

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Of course, the most likely explanation is that someone snatched her, abused her, killed her and disposed of the body. The chances are she'll never be found.


There's absolutely no logic in the parents making it so deliberately public if they had accidentally killed her.

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Of course, the most likely explanation is that someone snatched her, abused her, killed her and disposed of the body. The chances are she'll never be found.
There's absolutely no logic in the parents making it so deliberately public if they had accidentally killed her.

 

Why is it most likely? Any idea on the odds of a one off child abduction with a 10 min window to act? Millions and millions to one mate. Depends how she accidentally died I guess. I think they felt guilty about leaving her alone and being a doctor and so on they panicked with regard to careers and public perception.

Either way its a tragedy that could have been avoided. Why take children on holiday if you're going to creche them most days and then leave them alone at night?

Hopefully the UK police will throw some new light on it.

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Why is it most likely? Any idea on the odds of a one off child abduction with a 10 min window to act? Millions and millions to one mate.

 

Well obviously the abductors would have been watching out to see when there was no one around, it's not likely they randomly looked in the window and decided to snatch her.

 

And as for the creche thing, that's what annoyed me the most. There was a creche onsite, it wasn't like it was miles away. They were all fairly well off financially yet wouldn't fork out for it. Absolute cunts.

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Who leaves children in a flat out of eyesight, a fair walk away and with the patio and window unlocked? It's unreal. The mother herself admitted Madeline was crying for her father the night before...Although she wasn't too happy to repeat the story in later interviews. Another thing that shocked me was that the Tapas group would habitually all leave their mobiles when they went to eat...Nothing should disturb their sardine munching..

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Well obviously the abductors would have been watching out to see when there was no one around, it's not likely they randomly looked in the window and decided to snatch her.

 

And as for the creche thing, that's what annoyed me the most. There was a creche onsite, it wasn't like it was miles away. They were all fairly well off financially yet wouldn't fork out for it. Absolute cunts.

This was some kind of night creche was it? Not really heard of that before, wouldn't you normally get a baby sitter? Leaving such young kids alone outside the range of a baby monitor in an unlocked room was borderline negligent, I'm open minded to what happened but doubt they were involved directly in her disappearance personally.

 

Also think far too much public money has been sunk into this. Virtually no chance of getting her back, but that money could have been used elsewhere much more effectively for other crimes.

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Yeah, the creche was open late. One of the mistakes that the Portuguese police made was concentrating on a sighting of a man carrying a young girl in pyjamas, it turned out to be a father taking his child home from the creche after he'd been out for dinner.

 

Personally I think the plans to speak to these burglars is a shot in the dark, the UK police have been given a lot of time and money to spend and have to be seen to be doing something.

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remember reading the dogs had a 100% record in a couple of hundred cases or something and it give off alerts at their hire car, the apartment and the parents clothes

 

Wow... never knew that bit. Again though, why so public? To throw everyone off? Could they really be that calculating?

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remember reading the dogs had a 100% record in a couple of hundred cases or something and it give off alerts at their hire car, the apartment and the parents clothes

They purchased that car with the fund money btw and brought it back to the uk. That's kinda strange.

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Wow... never knew that bit. Again though, why so public? To throw everyone off? Could they really be that calculating?

Yeah later in an interview about the positive results from the dogs Gerry just said they weren't reliable like he was some kind of expert on the matter. :lol:

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Yeah, the creche was open late. One of the mistakes that the Portuguese police made was concentrating on a sighting of a man carrying a young girl in pyjamas, it turned out to be a father taking his child home from the creche after he'd been out for dinner.

:lol:

 

That's some kick in the balls. Not only is he not the bloke that kidnapped your kid, he's positively rubbing your nose in it by doing what you should have done yourself. From Pyjama Man to Mr Responsible.

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They purchased that car with the fund money btw and brought it back to the uk. That's kinda strange.

The car that her dead body was supposedly in was bought with the funds from what? Generated by their campaign?

 

:lol:

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:lol:

 

That's some kick in the balls. Not only is he not the bloke that kidnapped your kid, he's positively rubbing your nose in it by doing what you should have done yourself. From Pyjama Man to Mr Responsible.

You need to get over there and give them the benefit of your "sleuth in foriegn climes" skills

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10542577/Kris-Marshall-interview-The-new-face-of-Death-in-Paradise.html

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Why is it most likely? Any idea on the odds of a one off child abduction with a 10 min window to act? Millions and millions to one mate.

Why are those odds relevant? The relative odds of child abduction vs parents with no history of abuse or substance addiction murdering their children would probably show child abduction is more likely.

 

Just watching a programme on child abduction in France. Not common at all but it happens.

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