The last I read in the press about this case (the Daily Mail - hmmm, hardly the gospel truth) is that the police are following up leads that Madeleine's 'abduction' was by burglers. This presumably is supposed to link in with a spate of break-ins around the area.
Well - this one is quite priceless. It is probably even more implausible (if that is possible) than the abduction by a paedophile ring.
Just think about it. A petty thief decides to enter an apartment (no sign of a break in so apartment presumably unlocked, if we are to believe the bungled burglar theory). A cursory glance around reveals three young children in the apartment. Now what would any burglar worth his salt do in this particular situation?
Answers please, posters!
Would he/she/they:
1. Check that the children were asleep and if they were make off with any valuables as quickly as possible?
2. Find that one or more of the children were awake (unlikely if not impossible for it to be the twins as they were sleeping as if drugged as evidenced by not waking up even after the alarm was raised and merry hell was breaking out yet still they did not rouse - astonishing, really). Assuming Madeleine woke up ( if we are to believe the bungled burglary theory) what would your average petty thief do? Are we really expected to believe that he, she or they thought: 'oh, bloody hell, a child has woken up - never mind the loot, we better grab the 4 year old in case she blows the whistle'. What are the statistics on burglars who have tried to burgle a house where a child has woken up, and decided to take the child?
3. Enter the apartment, find that there were children in there, one of whom was (allegedly) disturbed and think: 'this isn't worth it' and flee.
4. Enter an apartment, find that a child is awake, hide their faces and flee with whatever valuables they have managed to grab.
I presume the McCann's media 'experts' are spinning away but the bungled burglary theory is about as ridiculous as you can get. In fact, so silly is the theory that I found myself once again looking at Kate McCann's appalling book 'Madeleine'. The more I read about this very sad case, the more ludicrous Kate McCann's ramblings become.
Take a look at page 325/326 if you can stomach it. Apparently the receptionist is to blame (along with everyone else apart from the McCanns of course) as she wrote in the message book that they (the parents presumably) were leaving the children alone in the apartment.
This, apparently, was a 'green light' to a child taker.
.....err.....so why leave the children alone, if it were a 'green light'.......where is the logic?!
Then Kate goes on to reveal how 'night after night I read of depraved individuals.......of the horrific crimes they'd committed.....the police went to visit some of them.......'so many child molesters' .......'honest to God (there is God again!) when your child has been stolen surely you are entitled to expect more than this'......
Once again, I am struck by Kate's tone of self-righteous indignation. And, once again, we have that sense of entitlement.
She goes on to write how people can be completely wrong in their recall..........yes indeed.....some more than others it would seem.
Read this sentence carefully on page 326: 'One of the reasons I was so staggered when we were made arguidos was that I knew there was nothing to implicate us'.
Well......even if we are to believe that the Portugese police force were completely inept (which I do not) it is still a very strange choice of words from a mother whose child has supposedly been snatched from her bed.
Despite Kate's assertations, there is the simple fact that there is absolutely no evidence (to use Gerry's phrase although not in this context) that Madeleine was abducted or stolen from her bed that night by an unknown person. None whatsoever.
The crucial witnesses are the last people who saw Madeleine - either alive or dead.
