How can it be deflection in the forum business if I'm including the parts of my post you deliberately missed out in reply to your, "you seem to think the idea that Madeleine was abducted by a paedo to be ridiculously unlikely."
Damn right I do for the reasons you consider deflection.! That's the truth, not deflection.
You may think your child would stand a better chance of being recovered if you gave police two completely different versions of the last time you seen your child alive, and then completely refuse to cooperate honestly with the people tasked to find her. I find that idea ridiculously unlikely but that's exactly what Mr and Mrs McCann chose to do.
One thing we can prove, it didn't help get their child back.
And you've also now finally admitted that the conditions the McCanns left their babies in posed a "very real threat" to their safety. That's progress IMO.
It didn't stop them doing it though, did it?
There is absolutely no correlation between what you perceive to be the different accounts given by David Payne and the possibility of a child being abducted from an unlocked apartment. You have stated that leaving kids in an unlocked apartment puts them in real danger of being abducted by a paedo. Whatever a family friend said after the event does not change the risk that you yourself admit exists. Therefore there is a total disconnect between what you perceive to be the very real possibility of abduction by a paedo and your attitude to the theory that Madeleine was abducted which you seem to rule out completely, simply because of David Payne's statement. That is utterly illogical IMO.
