The McCann v Gonçalo Amaral libel trial as it happens.

[jassi]

No point in mentioning those who have survived, few though they may be.  But then I'm with the Taken for a Childless Couple Brigade. I always have been an optimist.  And it has happened.
It seems to me that too much trouble went into this to be for a Paedophile.

Occasionally I have the irrational thought that it might have been 'removal by arrangement', but that everything went pear-shaped when the family fell under suspicion and that everything that has subsequently happened has been an attempt to exonerate the family from responsibility.

Irrational, as I say, for despite the barrage of publicity, there has never been a single hint of her being alive, safe and well in the bosom of a loving family.  Additionally, there is not a shred of evidence to support this idea.

[Redblossom]

Occasionally I have the irrational thought that it might have been 'removal by arrangement', but that everything went pear-shaped when the family fell under suspicion and that everything that has subsequently happened has been an attempt to exonerate the family from responsibility.

Irrational, as I say, for despite the barrage of publicity, there has never been a single hint of her being alive, safe and well in the bosom of a loving family.  Additionally, there is not a shred of evidence to support this idea.

 

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/news/childless-couple-in-link-to-maddie-mystery


tempted fate there didn't you?

[jassi]

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/news/childless-couple-in-link-to-maddie-mystery


tempted fate there didn't you?

Don't think I've actually seen that before. Is it recent, or from years ago.

[colombosstogey]

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/news/childless-couple-in-link-to-maddie-mystery


tempted fate there didn't you?

Yeh this was last year in July nothing happened then.....

[Redblossom]

Yeh this was last year in July nothing happened then.....

thanks colombo
Seems all the gypsies, white van drivers, cleaners, childless couples, paedophiles, dead thieving tractor drivers, insidious or disgruntled OC employyes and their aunts and uncles,  A.N. Other, any one else looked at comes to nothng in the end.....curiouser and curiouser as said in alice in wonderland...up to burglars now.?..and as some suggest traffickers for organs.........lets see what transpires

Blimey, so easy to go off topic....So when does the trial resume?

[Eleanor]

Surprised Guedes isn't around to tell us. Funny, that.

Well it has gone a bit beyond the sublime, hasn't it.

I read Friday somewhere, but it didn't say which Friday.  At this rate we'll be lucky if it's before Good Friday in some year or another.

[Redblossom]

Well it has gone a bit beyond the sublime, hasn't it.

I read Friday somewhere, but it didn't say which Friday.  At this rate we'll be lucky if it's before Good Friday in some year or another.

Wild exagerrations get you nowhere.....learn patience


 

[jassi]

Wild exagerrations get you nowhere.....learn patience


 

Quite. The outcome is only going to affect a couple of people anyway and is of no great importance to the world in general.

[Eleanor]

One can't help wondering what would be said if The McCanns were producing all of these delaying tactics.

[Carana]

Well they need to sue who ever does the stats then, as statistically speaking sadly if she was taken away by a pedophile, she will have died within about 3 hours of her being taken.

That's fact not fiction sadly.

Children under 5 who are taken are usually found dead sadly unless its a baby. Its a horrible world out there.

Hmmm. I'm not too sure about that.


Acting quickly is critical. Seventy-four percent of abducted children who are ultimately murdered are dead within three hours of the abduction.
http://www.parents.com/kids/safety/stranger-safety/child-abduction-facts/

[Montclair]

One can't help wondering what would be said if The McCanns were producing all of these delaying tactics.

How do you know that it wasn't the McCanns who presented a document to the court?

[Mr Gray]

How do you know that it wasn't the McCanns who presented a document to the court?

Twitter said it was amarel...has he denied it?

[Montclair]

Twitter said it was amarel...has he denied it?

Why does he have to deny anything at all, especially something that he hasn't done?

[Montclair]

Nobody can say what happened because the postponement was not decided in an open court session.

[Cariad]

Splitting up twins would have been immensely psychologically damaging for the child.  Both children actually, but you know what I mean.

I don't imagine someone stealing a child would be overly concerned about emotionally damaging the child. In those circumstances a younger child would be preferable surly?