Shocking. I don't agree with this "aguido" status thing - the police should have suspects, but they should not really be named publicly. One thing's for sure, the British press didn't understand what the "aguido" status meant either.
The problem is Arguido is a double edged sword. The police cannot ask certain questions without declaring your Arguido, and you gain certain rights that you do not have without the status. The counter is that it's public (mind you, we don't keep suspects private, so that's not really a difference, get arrested or accused of anything in this country and it's all over the papers, just ask John Leslie or Craig Charles)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arguido
My understanding is that the British police always suspect the parents in child abduction cases, and I would expect that if the abduction had happened in Britain then the McCann's could be ruled out fairly quickly with the minimum of fuss.
Or would have been suspects from the start and would have had a lot less freedom with evidence (such as that cuddly toy that was washed multiple times) than they had in Portugal. Again, it's a double-edged sword.
Indeed they are. Shame quite a few posters in this thread don't seem to realise this.
Indeed, on both sides. My suspicions still point to the parents being far more involved than they have let on, but that doesn't mean I think they will be convicted. Any prospect of any sort of conviction for anyone in this case is long gone.
They were checked on every 30 minutes. Neither the British nor the Portuguese authorities think it's neglect either, or they would have charged them, so I don't know how you and others think you know what neglect is better than these?
I don't have negative publicity to worry about
If they'd have checked on their kids every 30 minutes or so, my response would be the same. I expect the social services response would have been the same also.
Well, except as the timeline shows, they weren't checked on that often, not really.
1730: Kate and Gerry McCann pick up their three children from afternoon tea at the Ocean Club
1800: Gerry begins a game of tennis with other guests
1840: David Payne checks on Kate and the children, at Gerry's request and sees Madeleine
1900: Gerry finishes playing tennis
2035: Kate and Gerry McCann arrive at the Ocean Club's tapas restaurant
2105: Gerry checks on his children, and sees Madeleine alive and well
2115: Having left the table to check on her own children, Jane Tanner sees a man carrying a child, close to the McCanns' apartment
2130: Matthew Oldfield checks on the McCanns' apartment. Hearing no noise from the children's bedroom, he assumes all is well and leaves without seeing Madeleine
2200: Kate McCann checks on her children. Madeleine is gone.
Taken from
http://www.mccannfiles.com/id18.html
There's actually an hour between anyone actually checking on the children, and note it doesn't say what time they left for dinner, but what time they arrived at the restaurant.
I still can't reconcile the idea of leaving kids while you go off for dinner and being good parents. Perhaps it's because my parents never behaved in such a manner.
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