Madeleine McCann's parents

Dimple said:
They are health professionals and still working so where is all the money the poster reckons they have made?
Where is it stashed?
Or perhaps they used it for finding Madeleine.
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Didn't it come out a while back that they had used the money they made to pay off their mortgage?
 
I sometimes wonder what would happen if she is found alive. She was 3 went she went missing, but would be 10 now. She’d probably have no memory of her real parents and life in the UK, and may not even speak English.

Can you imagine if she is found, but is happy, healthy and doesn’t want to return? If she’s grown up in another country, culture and language – her real parents, country of birth and British culture may all be totally alien to her now.
 
twoblacklines said:
The Portugese police charged them with abduction and then it was mysteriously cleared - any countries Police don't simply make mistakes.

They are guilty, they know it, the HM Prison service knows it, society knows it. But they must have something on someone - because here they are, not in prison - still working and milking the hell out of the situation. They must be millionaires by now!
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Just out of interest what do you think they might have on someone that would mean they could get away with it?

I don't agree with your view - but being open minded i'm trying to think of how they would come across information that would lead to this playing out in their favour.
 
Police used sniffer dogs who found her blood all over the place and in the car they rented. They scorned this and it got dropped.

Forensic science analysts in Birmingham found 15 DNA points confirming it was MM's blood found in the car and in the apartment. When DNA is used to find someone in a crime, they need a min of 10 DNA points.
Yet this was dropped too.

It seems obvious that the Government covered this right up...but why? I do wonder who their "Tapas 9" friends were...
 
twoblacklines said:
Police used sniffer dogs who found her blood all over the place and in the car they rented. They scorned this and it got dropped.

Forensic science analysts in Birmingham found 15 DNA points confirming it was MM's blood found in the car and in the apartment. When DNA is used to find someone in a crime, they need a min of 10 DNA points.
Yet this was dropped too.
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Wasn't there a cadaver dog alert during the hunt for Shannon Matthews, who was later found safe and well?

twoblacklines said:
It seems obvious that the Government covered this right up...but why? I do wonder who their "Tapas 9" friends were...
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Not only why but how? How would the UK government cover up a crime in Portugal?
 
twoblacklines said:
Police used sniffer dogs who found her blood all over the place and in the car they rented. They scorned this and it got dropped.

Forensic science analysts in Birmingham found 15 DNA points confirming it was MM's blood found in the car and in the apartment. When DNA is used to find someone in a crime, they need a min of 10 DNA points.
Yet this was dropped too.
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Both of those stories turned out to be made up, as came out in the earlier libel trial featuring the McCanns. The second also makes no sense, as I pointed out early in this threads when it was announced: DNA results simply don't work like that.
 
Dimple said:
official sauce?
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They received payments from the fund to service their mortgage payments on their £500k home, this was widely reported at the time and supported by statements from the Fund and stopped when they were made suspects in Portugal. (Or when it was made public knowledge, depending on your level of cynicism)

The couple's spokesman Clarence Mitchell said nothing untoward had taken place.
"The fund was set up first and foremost to find Madeleine and the vast majority of the money has been spent on that," he said.
"But before they were made arguidos they were assisted with two mortgage repayment and the money was legally dispensed.
"Neither Kate nor Gerry had worked since May and as a result money was getting tight.
"As soon as they were made suspects, neither the fund nor Kate and Gerry thought it was appropriate to ask for a penny more.
"Gerry will go back to work this week, so this situation hopefully will not arise again."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1567856/McCanns-used-1m-fund-to-pay-mortgage.html
 
Castiel said:
They received payments from the fund to service their mortgage payments on their £500k home, this was widely reported at the time and supported by statements from the Fund and stopped when they were made suspects in Portugal. (Or when it was made public knowledge, depending on your level of cynicism)http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1567856/McCanns-used-1m-fund-to-pay-mortgage.html
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It's still a bad thing to do (or is it?) but the poster made it sound like they had paid their mortgage off.
 
Dimple said:
It's still a bad thing to do (or is it?) but the poster made it sound like they had paid their mortgage off.
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I would have thought that both earned enough that the few months between when they last worked and took the payments from the Fund should not have caused them too much trouble financially. Effectively they seem to have only had enough money to survive for 2 months without salary, assuming that their positions as a GP and Cardiologist respectively did not give them sick pay or other salary benefits in the event of losing a child. From my own perspective, and I assume their joint salaries are not too far off my own family income, that seems a very short period in which to 'run' into significant financial trouble requiring payments from a fund set up to find a missing child.

I don't know the sick pay benefits for cardiologists etc within the NHS, but I would have thought it would be sufficient to cover 8 weeks salary? And if not, that a cardiologist and GP earn enough to have reasonable savings in case of emergency....it was not as if their mortgage was overly excessive either.
 
Castiel said:
I would have thought that both earned enough that the few months between when they last worked and took the payments from the Fund should not have caused them too much trouble financially. Effectively they seem to have only had enough money to survive for 2 months without salary, assuming that their positions as a GP and Cardiologist respectively did not give them sick pay or other salary benefits in the event of losing a child. From my own perspective, and I assume their joint salaries are not too far off my own family income, that seems a very short period in which to 'run' into significant financial trouble requiring payments from a fund set up to find a missing child.

I don't know the sick pay benefits for cardiologists etc within the NHS, but I would have thought it would be sufficient to cover 8 weeks salary? And if not, that a cardiologist and GP earn enough to have reasonable savings in case of emergency....it was not as if their mortgage was overly excessive either.
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Indeed, but it can be tight to the wall for people with investments etc, more so now, than then, especially for people in their situation.
Granted there is nothing quite normal about the family, so financial issues, or just wanting a free ride for a few months on mortgage isn't the strangest.
They did after all leave a three year old to babysit twin babies.
 
They made a mistake, like we have all done, and yet even now people are baying for their blood.

To the people who keep saying they were in the wrong: What will make it right?

We've all done things which we shouldn't have, gotten away with it and that's been the end of it.

This time for them, something went horrifically wrong. What can they do to absolve themselves in your eyes, or is it a case of hovering it above them forever?!
 
I have never left my kids alone in a hotel room while I go out for a meal. They are responsible for whatever happened as they put going out for a meal above the safety of their children.
If they had been responsible parents like most people then this would never of happened.
 
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