The conspiracy theories flew for sure. I can't recall when the last independent sighting of the child was or who made it so the timeline depended on that.
absolutely. They were incredibly naive and share responsibility for what happened. They didn’t kill her but they mostly certainly are paying for their mistake. Nothing in life is worse than losing your child!
Naive probably isn't the right word, I'd say more selfish. We can all understand it, having young kids is hard work and stressful and it can be difficult to find some 'adult' time away from them. And especially if you're doing high responsibility, stressful jobs like they were the temptation to try and engineer some chill out time will be high. But the welfare of your children, especially when they're that young, must always come first. This wasn't taking a chance with a 10 year old who can largely look after themselves whilst alone, these were very young children that could have gotten out of bed and hurt themselves on something, never mind the highly unlikely risk of something like what happened. You can say that the risk of them getting kidnapped was so low as to almost be discounted, but the risk of them waking up, getting out of bed and hurting themselves was certainly high enough that they should never have taken the risk. So while they were ridiculously unlucky that this happened, I can't give them a pass on that because the risk of the other eventualities was too high and makes their decision unacceptably reckless.
Social Services never took them to task for the leaving all 3 of their children alone that night. That only the pretty blonde one vanished / died isn't something that gets much attention - the twins were abandoned in the room too while the parents went out to have fun. Social services also never took them to task for dumping the twins (the ones that somehow didn't die / disappear) with family in the UK for months while they left the UK and performed their media circus act in Portugal As you say had they been a poor couple from a council estate with a dubious history then their treatment by the authorities and the media would have been very different
Apparently the brother is a young GB swimmer who could potentially progress to the Olympics etc . Let’s hope if the lad makes it to some sort of stage where the media get interested he is looked after and not hounded by those after quotes and comment on what happened etc .
I agree with all of this and it’s where I’m standing on it. I’ve holidayed, been to family parties, weddings etc with little ones. Never, ever would I dream of leaving them where I couldn’t see them. Mine used to fall asleep in their pushchair or we used to push two chairs together and lay them down. I do always think the parents look guilty, but maybe it’s because I don’t like them very much for leaving their children alone in a room, where they couldn’t see them and, to top it all, in a foreign country. Like you’ve said, numerous things could have happened that are more obvious than being kidnapped. I have followed this story but maybe I’m missing something. I do find it strange that a kidnapper knew the children had been left alone. Maybe it happened every night and they had been watching the family? If the parents were Joe Publics, this would have been a completely different situation.
precisely. my immediate thoughts on it when I read about it back then was how do you not just have a rota, one person with them at all times for say 60 minutes, next person takes over so they can go back to the gathering. they are guilty, at the very least of serious neglect I found the whole thing very fishy from the off. - assume they didn't take the younger children as twins may be too easy to identify when the other grew up - how they could know the children were unsupervised at all, you'd have to be Joe PI to be knowing how many people were in the flat at any one time, let alone how easy it might be to get in - how someone could get away with the child without someone seeing it, although I am aware there was one reported sighting but they'll be ten a penny whether anyone saw anything or not (and just read it was one of their mates, had forgotten that) - dismissal of evidence might suggest she'd been put in the boot and even be dead, given abductions and murders are often someone who knew the person/family they were rightly "arguidos" - just read that the case was archived due to insufficient evidence they did themselves no favour by using crowd funding or whatever it was to cover their mortgage I'm not into conspiracy, just logic and it never did add up, timing perfect, no trace, quite often if a trail goes cold it can be there never was one and time spent tracing McCann movements and looking for places bodies can be disposed of, might have been time better spent rather than pinning all on some German - apparently the germans think they have "concrete evidence", but if that were the case surely we'd all know it was 'over' and they'd not be yet to charge him. Sure they seem to have plenty of evidence he'd fit a profile, but 2 and maybe 2 makes maybe 4 ie be sure that is a crime he committed not just circumstantial evidence, circumstantial evidence could convict the McCanns.....! £13.2m spent looking for her, could be the most expensive runaround ever if the parents know where the kid is and nothing to do with germans.....
