Madeleine McCann allegedly abducted in Portugal (2) The press apologise.

[Rotherhamer]

Why dont you two just grow up:rant:

This thread is about a missing child.

Go play somewhere else.

empathise with you entirely:cool:

[bagger]

So, the blood wasn't Madeleine's.

 

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1280082,00.html

 

As the PJ were probably hoping to wrap this up as a murder enquiry it looks like they're going to carry on looking for her!

[angle20]

So, the blood wasn't Madeleine's.

 

That probably wasn't a key line in the enquiry. Today's Express is headlining with:

 

Madeleine Police: We know her killed her

 

DETECTIVES leading the Madeleine McCann investigation now know the identity of her killers, it was sensationally alleged last night.

Reports in Portugal claim police are convinced Madeleine died inside her family’s holiday flat in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz. And senior investigators are said to be ready to swoop within days on new suspects who have been identified.

[purdyamos]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2267836.ece

 

Mr Sousa said this week that the McCanns are regarded as witnesses and are not considered suspects. But he refused to rule out the possibility that their friends may have been involved.

 

Portuguese police are believed to have found some new evidence in the case about two weeks ago which led to officers saying that they now considered it possible that Madeleine, who disappeared shortly before her fourth birthday, was now dead.

 

...

 

Detectives in Portugal are expected to hold the first press conference on the investigation tomorrow for more than a month. A judge is expected to decide this month that the only official suspect in the case, Robert Murat, 33, should be cleared.

[cressida]

are these "friends" ones they had met while they were on holiday, or had they known them before?

[angle20]

are these "friends" ones they had met while they were on holiday, or had they known them before?

 

From the Observer, 12.8.07:

 

The tapas companions

 

Rachael and Matthew Oldfield

 

A recruitment consultant and doctor from London, they have a daughter aged around 21 months and have known the McCanns since Mr Oldfield and Mr McCann worked together at a Leicester hospital. Last week, Mrs Oldfield was the first of the friends to speak out about unsourced reports in Portuguese media of police suspicions about the group, calling them 'very hurtful and all rather ludicrous'.

 

David and Fiona Payne

 

A senior research fellow in cardiovascular sciences at Leicester University and a doctor, they have two children and were the only ones in the group, according to Sol, using a baby monitor the night Madeleine disappeared.

 

Russell O'Brien and Jane Tanner

 

A university friend of David Payne's, Russell O'Brien is also a doctor, who worked in Leicester. He and Ms Tanner have two children, the older one the same age as Madeleine. This daughter, the newspaper Sol reported yesterday, was vomiting on the night the toddler disappeared, so Ms Tanner spent much of the evening away from the dinner table. She is a key witness on the night of the disappearance, having told police that around 9.20pm she saw a man walking away from the McCanns' apartment carrying a child.

 

Dianne Webster

 

Fiona Payne's mother had until yesterday not been named. She is reported to have told police that on the night in question each couple was responsible for their own children.

 

 

[cressida]

thanks for that-the plot thickens (hope it wasn't a plot!!)

[BoroughGal]

This seems to have moved on a little again - lets not return to any name calling and unpleasantness please. I'm going to leave this open for now, but it will be closed at the next suggestion of any more bickering. Thanks.

[Kingmaker2]

I posted my clarification precisely because of dumb statements such as the above. We do NOT know that Madeleine is missing; only that her parents have reported her as missing, which is not the same thing.

 

Angle not sure you understood what I meant when I said Madeleine was missing regardless of whether the Mccann's reported her missing or not.

If as you suggest the Mccann's reported Madeleine Mccann missing when in fact they know where she is all along, then Madeleine is still "missing" in that noone knows where she is except the Mccanns.

Either way there is little doubt that Madeleine is "missing".

Anyone who suggest otherwise is probably "missing" the point.

[angle20]

then Madeleine is still "missing" in that noone knows where she is except the Mccanns.

Either way there is little doubt that Madeleine is "missing".

 

The only people to whom a pre-school child can be regarded as 'missing' are its parents. Back in March, none of us had any idea where Madeleine McCann was, but none of us regarded her as 'missing'. It was only when the news told us that her parents said that she was missing that we adopted the belief that she was missing.