Madeleine case - Robert Murat

jas72 · 21 May 2007 at 15:23

ElRazur said:
A kidnapper (or paedophile) came in the room, lets not forget that.

That has not been proven by the police. It's simply conjecture. Same as the former MI5 officer states that she probably walked out the front door.

miracleboy · 21 May 2007 at 15:24

Even if he took the lie detector test and passed do you think for a second the press would leave him be, they have the rabbit in their jaws - the newspaper copy is just too good for them at the moment.

jas72 · 21 May 2007 at 15:27

90 million website visitors can't be wrong.

shifty_uk · 21 May 2007 at 15:30

jas72 said:
twas mentioned on GMTV this morning that there are calls for a minutes silent prayer for her safe return.

Pretty shocking I think. All I've heard all day is "Maddie's father has returned home to the UK"...........O RLY? Who cares? Give us some real news.

dirtydog · 21 May 2007 at 15:32

Dr_Evil said:
In court, yes. In public, no. He could have cleared his name a bit by doing it anyway, refusing can be seen as trying to keep a secret....

By whom? Knuckle dragging red top readers?

Dr_Evil · 21 May 2007 at 15:41

dirtydog said:
By whom? Knuckle dragging red top readers?

the word 'media' is shorter..

jas72 · 21 May 2007 at 15:44

We don't know what he is being questioned about.

The police don't tell us anything.

Perhaps he has unrelated secrets he cares not to reveal without being formerly charged.

I'm sure he has the basic right to silence. Lie detectors can recognise nervousness which can lead to more probing. However, we simply don't know.

Actually I don't care to know either. It's between him and the police.

I was just reading an interesting article by the beeb about this case and the media's 'over'hype compared to the 100s of missing person cases still unsolved.

The comment section is particularly interesting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/05/too_much_from_portugal_1.html

I was really moved by looking through the missing persons website. Some people simply have disappeared and many after going for holidays abroad to tourist destinations. What happens to those people some of whom have been missing for years. They simply vanish !

seaviewuk · 21 May 2007 at 16:38

There were 798 child abductions in Britain in the last period for which figures are available (2003-4), of which most were intra-family but 68 were "by strangers". Of these, a majority were quickly and quietly resolved, by information being available and acted on before the captor realised. Twenty-five of them took longer, in addition to dozens from preceding years. Since the disappearance of Madeleine on May 3, another 450 young people have gone missing in Britain. While many are teenagers, none has received anything like the attention given to the McCanns.

from the Guardian - Simon Jenkins

I can see Max Clifford - NOTW - and OK magazine licking their lips now

Dead or Alive? Doesn't matter to the media there is cash to be made out of this story :rolleyes: