Heyesey Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Also, I can't see why the fact that the McCanns are now suspects should make them guilty. You've not read any tabloid papers in the whole of the last ten years? It seems to be widespread thinking nowadays, that anyone who's an official suspect, or is arrested, must automatically be guilty. Just take a look at how many arrested persons have to be moved around in secrecy with bags over their heads, so as not to be lynched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balderdasher Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Let's hope the Portuguese Police do a good job and find the real perps, who-ever they are! The entire police investigation reeks of clutching at straws from the offset. Witness statements have been produced stating the lead investigators were seen in lunchtime bars during working hours drinking whiskey and joking loudly after seeing a news iteam in the bar's TV about the McCanns, Then there are allegations of a local girl interrogated by the same police chief to force out statements etc I think the local police wanted to do things " their way " .. this has seen been thwarted by every spare foreign news crew from America to Samoa being at their doorstep. So they ( local police ) have to improvise. It's a clear message that by allowing two formal suspects to leave the country, to only return with 5 days notice given, means the police havent really got anything of substance to detain the McCanns. If anything, by the McCanns now being formal suspects, they left Faro airport privy to much more ongoing investigation facts that they previously werent given access to. The local police there are now most likely building a case from fragments of evidence turned up by (ironically) British sniffer dogs to suit their past jigsaw ****-handed way of doing things before the world press decided to arrive and demand much quicker answers On the other hand, I have concerns about Kate McCann's GP background and her expert knowledge on human physiology and anatomy. That's all I'm saying for the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heyesey Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 The entire police investigation reeks of clutching at straws from the offset. Since we know nothing whatsoever about the police investigation - Portuguese law forbidding any details be released - on what do you base this judgment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticusFinch Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 I'm sure it's been said elsewhere on this thread but it is the media who are controlling this case and our perceptions of what may have happened and of the McCanns themselves. Check out private-eye for analysis of the press obsession with particular cases and not others. I'm really looking forward to the next Eye coming out. According to their website it's on sale tomorrow. In the last issue's Street of Shame they showed the front pages of 14 consecutive Daily Expresses (excluding the Sunday Express). Madeleine McCann was the front page headline on all 14, 13 of which used exactly the same picture of her! Most of them had the headline "MADELEINE" then some secondary comment underneath, many of them quite insignificant and unworthy of being the front-page headline, such as "MADELEINE: ARREST EXPECTED SOON". It really did show the over-the-top coverage of the issue. In this issue I'm really looking forward to how they handle the issue of the McCanns now being suspects. I think we could be looking at a classic front cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angle20 Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 If this had happened in England, the parents would have been suspects from the beginning. Behind the scenes they probably have been down there. Remember that the British government - in the shape of Ambassador John Buck, and the tax-payer funded spin doctors Sheree Dodd and Clarence Mitchell - played a part in pressuring the Portugese to pursue the abduction line of enquiry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angle20 Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Kate McCann's GP background and her expert knowledge on human physiology and anatomy. That's all I'm saying for the moment. I would hope a GP would have some "expert knowledge on human physiology and anatomy"! Before going into general practice Kate McCann specialised in gynaecology before moving over to anaesthesia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balderdasher Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Since we know nothing whatsoever about the police investigation - Portuguese law forbidding any details be released - on what do you base this judgment? Quite simply from: 1. Not long ago the local police issued a statement they were going nowhere 2. Suddenly sniffer dogs' evidence warrant the McCanns to be questioned and formally suspected, but clearly nothing but weak circumstancial evidence was uncovered, thus even the most inept of lawyers would have pushed to convince the police that the McCanns can fly home yesterday. 3. Early border patrolling was just inept, when they fully went down the route of abduction. But got nowhere, so scratched their heads and eventually, they issued statement ( see point 1. ) 4. World press uncvering their "own" way of policing and investigating with previous allegations of interrogations and beatings to submissions to confess. 5. Im 2007, if a Met chief detective or any lead investigators were seen drinking hard spirits during a working lunch and laughing loudly at the sight of the parents of the child they are investigating, they might as well hang up their career. But as I've said before, because it's the " done thing " over there, it backs up the fact that over time they just hit a dead end and lets go back and re-assess the file intoxicated with 45% proof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green-veggie Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 I was watching the news this morning on Sky and someone was saying we should start boycotting Portugal. It sounds a rather melodramatic or knee jerk reaction but I must admit even I feel, that on the information available, none of how the Portugese authorities have behaved gives me any confidence in going there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heyesey Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 The McCanns have stated publicly that they will return to Portugal at any time if the police there should request it. Privately ... they've consulted a lawyer who is a specialist on extradition law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peardrops Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Out of interest, if they are requested to return Portugal for questioning, charging, un-charging etc who will pay for the flights? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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