Madeleine McCann investigation 'cost £10 million to date'

schizo said:
That's a different story then.
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But a point well made when you've got kids.
One of the worst moments of my life was around 1991 when I was in Woolworths looking at the toys with my 2 year old, looked down and she was gone.
I'd just let go of her hand to pick a toy up and that one minute seemed like an hour while me and my wife shouted for her.
She was standing by the Pick & Mix without a care in the world and to this day I still get chills about it so don't ever think you can keep your eye on them all the time.
One poster above actually condemned the McCanns for leaving their children in a room and then said it was OK to go to the shops for 10 minutes :eek:

Anyway, even Social Services said the McCanns had normal parenting skills and did nothing wrong.
Stupidity and hindsight is another matter though.
 
Dimple said:
But a point well made when you've got kids.
One of the worst moments of my life was around 1991 when I was in Woolworths looking at the toys with my 2 year old, looked down and she was gone.
I'd just let go of her hand to pick a toy up and that one minute seemed like an hour while me and my wife shouted for her.
She was standing by the Pick & Mix without a care in the world and to this day I still get chills about it so don't ever think you can keep your eye on them all the time.
One poster above actually condemned the McCanns for leaving their children in a room and then said it was OK to go to the shops for 10 minutes :eek:

Anyway, even Social Services said the McCanns had normal parenting skills and did nothing wrong.
Stupidity and hindsight is another matter though.
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Still doesn't explain why anyone should care about a single child in a sea of millions that die every year...
 
Greebo said:
Just seen today the uk police are giving it 6 more months and another £1.5m to try and find Maddie and then they are giving up.

ANother £1.5m? Really?
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I don't know what a day's water boarding the McCanns would cost, but I suspect the mystery would be solved for a whole lot less than £1,500,000...
 
Terminal_Boy said:
I don't know what a day's water boarding the McCanns would cost, but I suspect the mystery would be solved for a whole lot less than £1,500,000...
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Oddly enough, if there were capable of the actions people are prescribing to them, they might be somewhat resistant to waterboarding also. A psychopath can rationalise in their mind what is occurring, knowing full well the outcome will not result in their death, and pass the unpleasantness by knowing it will avoid them prison and vilification for eternity.
 
Greebo said:
I have never like the idea that since that first day she has refused to answer questions when interviews by the Portuguese police. And because they viewed them as a suspect she left Portugal after the first days questioning and never returned for day two.

It's amazing to think such a high profile case and the mother has never been questioned further after the initial witness statement. Or basically the hour of questioning the police when she refused to answer each question.
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Evidence to support these assertions, please.

There's a great page debunking anti-McCann myths here.

StriderX said:
Still doesn't explain why anyone should care about a single child in a sea of millions that die every year...
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Yeah, I can't understand why people made such a big fuss about James Bulger. He was just some kid who died, it happens all the time. Nobody's managed to explain why anyone should care.
 
Sliver said:
Maybe if he was your son you would care. :rolleyes:
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I think you and several others here need to recalibrate their sarcasm meters. That one was about as obvious as it gets and you still missed it.


As for the McCanns, the best debunking source to read is the transcript of the libel case they brought a few years ago, against most of the UK tabloids. During the course of the case the papers admitting making up just about every story they printed about the case, especially the so-called "evidence". The rest was leaked by the Portuguese police to try to make it look like they weren't being incompetent.

As has been observed many times, the theory about the parents guilt seems to be a combination of a) well, it must have been them, and b) the refusal of Mrs McCann to cry for the cameras. That's it. That's the evidence.
 
Whether the did it or not, we will have spent over £11m to find one kid plus the McCann have spent over £5m from their fund.

Should all that be spent on just one missing kid? And as far as I am aware it's still classified as a missing child case and not an abduption case. How much money is spent trying to find all the other children in the uk that go missing each year? A fraction and then after a quick period of time no more active time is spent trying to find them. This money probably could have been used to find several other parents kids.
 
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Lets put it this way, sure it's tragic that one child went missing because their parents left them alone in a foreign country whilst they went for a meal etc.

But think about how many children you could potentially save from death in this country or say in the African continent with £10m.

Personally I think it is a massive waste an the money could be used to do much much more than just search for one child who may or may not even be alive.

And yes before anybody asks I don't have children and if I did my opinion might be different...
 
I think the Govt. should have a huge Inquiry into how the pure negligence of a middle-class couple out on their jollies cost over £10MILLION which would take 3-4years and cost £MILLIONS more. That's what usually happens. Right? :rolleyes:
 
DazQ87 said:
Personally I think it is a massive waste an the money could be used to do much much more than just search for one child who may or may not even be alive.
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But what if the Police believe they have got their suspect/suspects but need more time/resources to prove it?
For example even though Barry George has been found not guilty the Police are wasting no more money on the Jill Dando case because they are sure he did it.
Likewise with Maddie it is open because they are waiting for the evidence to come to light.
Should there be a money/time limit put on cases and if that money/time has been reached the guilty get away with it?
 
OldCoals said:
They left their children unsupervised while they went out.
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Which Social Services said was well within reasonable parenting and no crime had been committed.
Personally I would like to see this kind of thing made a crime, you've got kids so they are your responsibility and you make sure they are supervised at all times.
 
Dimple said:
Should there be a money/time limit put on cases and if that money/time has been reached the guilty get away with it?
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do we have a statute of limitations in the uk like the Americans?

i know we're pretty unique in not having one for sex crimes but i dunno about normal crimes.
 
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