[MERGED] Madeleine McCann

[Damien]

Originally Posted by Osem

I'd like to think that the Police expend the same amount of time and effort on all missing children but somehow doubt they do. I wonder how many parents who've been in similar circumstances have received this sort of attention. Whilst I'm sure they don't begrudge the McCanns anything, they must feel like second class citizens.

At the time I was annoyed. Canterbury town center had posters everywhere. In McDonalds, massive ones in the Superdrug window and, well, everywhere else. Given where she went missing it's highly unlikely anyone in Canterbury would have seen her and would have missed the wall-to-wall coverage in the press. You kind of think that if they had done the same for a local missing person the posters would stand a far greater chance of being effective.

You can't begrudge the McCann family for being so effective in keeping the search going, good luck to them, everyone hopes this tale has a happy ending. However it is probably evidence of the emotive storms that envelop the country from time to time. The annual Poppy crusades where newspapers start becoming judge and jury on who in the public eye hasn't displayed the required level of respect is another example.

[Osem]

Very true. So who's responsible for this decision and why was it made after all the previous goings on? As a genuine attempt to solve a crime? Has powerful (even political) pressure been brought to bear behind the scenes? Or is this just a way of demonstrating how thorough they've been and covering their backs in a high profile case? If this sort of thing isn't being routinely practised in similar, albeit less well known, unsolved cases, it seems to me the upper echelons of the Police may be behaving like politicians.

[Horace]

Updated image of Madeleine using CGI http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17838052

From the article :
""We are working on the basis of two possibilities here - one is that Madeleine is still alive; and the second that she is sadly dead," he said."

He seems to be implying there are other possibilities and I'm struggling to work out what they might be.

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by Horace

Updated image of Madeleine using CGI http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17838052

From the article :
""We are working on the basis of two possibilities here - one is that Madeleine is still alive; and the second that she is sadly dead," he said."

Daft bloody statement.

IF she's alive it's a much better picture than the one the redtops always print:

[Hom3r]

Originally Posted by Horace

Updated image of Madeleine using CGI http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17838052

From the article :
""We are working on the basis of two possibilities here - one is that Madeleine is still alive; and the second that she is sadly dead," he said."

He seems to be implying there are other possibilities and I'm struggling to work out what they might be.

I think they meant alive and being treated as "their daughter", the other is to horrible to put in to words or even think, but IMHO a fate worse than death

[Anonymouse]

I saw articles such as this, this and others in today's papers which suggest she is alive and has been seen. Here's hoping...

[Pierre]

Although there has been the odd case, such as the one America, and Fritzel which is similar, where the abducted has been kept alive and hidden it is rare.

And whilst you can never give up hope............ I would expect her to have been killed soon after she was abducted.

[TheDaddy]

I think she's still alive, don't know why just got a feeling

[TheDaddy]

She's dead, according to psychic scoundrel and proven liar Derek accorah

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ead-claim.html

[Osem]

Don't suppose he'll mind all the publicity.

[Maggy J]

So let us not give him any more.

[Osem]

[budwieser]

I still believe she`s safe and well somewhere.