Madeline McCann

Another report in the papers today supposedly another clue has emerged in the hunt for Madeline McCann, this happens periodically, a little bit of excitement in the papers and then it goes away again, until next time.

Madeline vanished in May 2007 whilst on holiday with her family on the Algarve in Portugal, she was then the subject of the biggest manhunt, or in her case girl hunt  in Portuguese history, no evidence was ever found to back up the theory that  she was kidnapped.

Portuguese police suspect that Madeline was killed in the family’s apartment by one or both of the parents, probably by accident and then her body hidden, there are a few clues that do lend credibility to this theory but not enough to make a case, one being the unexplained mileage on the family hire car, police think this was when they drove out to hide the body. The parents were at one stage named as suspects , indeed a couple of documentary’s have been aired that cast a less than favourable light on the couple.

This case has been a strange one Madeline’s parents have muddied the waters so much that even if her body was found and they were convicted they would be able to spend the rest of their lives doing the chat show circuit pleading their innocence, saying how they had been framed by the Portuguese.

We all have our own personal theory’s based on the little we have gleaned from the media reports, and what we have seen on TV. Myself I believe the parents are guilty and hope that one day they do get caught, my own suspicions were aroused on the second evening when Madeline’s father Gerry made an appeal for his daughters return, he made his appeal in the middle of the night in darkness and read from a prepared statement, in his supposed anguish for his daughter he had the foresight to bring out a tiny pencil torch which he balanced between his fingers to cast light on the paper in his hand, pretty lucid thinking from somebody who’s baby girl could have been lying dead in a ditch or in the hands of a pervert.

Another clue  was when both parents appeared on a Spanish chat show pleading for information,  they had been given a pretty torrid time by the interviewer as to why they were considered suspects, as the show wound down and the credits began to roll Gerry turned to his wife and was clearly heard to say, “don’t say anything not a bloody word the mike’s may still be on”,  a strange thing for him to say, something he hasn’t been able to explain away satisfactorily.

Throughout the whole episode as it was played out on our TV's the mother Kate has not  shown any real emotion, not once have I seen her cry and felt sorry for her, everything she does look’s rehearsed and cold, her friends have tried to explain this away by saying its because she is a Doctor that she can keep her emotions under control, rubbish, Doctors I’m sure love their children the same way we all do and would feel the same pain we all would if something that awful happened.

I sincerely hope that no harm has come Madeline and she has been taken maybe by someone who  perhaps wanted a child and couldn’t have one themselves, and that Maddie is at least in a safe and loving environment, but sadly I don’t think this story will  have a happy ending and we are going to be regularly reminded of this tragedy as her parents play out this act of searching for her.