Mark Williams-Thomas suggests Madeleine woke, wandered and was abducted.

[Venturi Swirl]

You said 'locked in'. Not that there's any evidence that anyone other than the T9 were leaving kids home alone. After all, there were plenty of alternatives provided by Mark Warner.

Plenty of alternatives?  Please list them.

[Mr Gray]

No, the ones with any morals took then with them.

I question the morals of those who relentlessly criticise the McCanns online 13 years after her disappearance...perhaps I'm wrong and it isn't their morals I should question

[Robittybob1]

Then they weren't locked in, were they?

But did I say all of the parents deadlocked the doors?  Others would have just shut the door, as in the front door, which would require key from the outside but could be opened using the handle from the inside.  I think you could still call these "locked in".   It all depends on what you want to mean by "locked in".

[Robittybob1]

Plenty of alternatives?  Please list them.

There was the free night creche and the costly baby sitter for hire.

[Venturi Swirl]

There was the free night creche and the costly baby sitter for hire.

So there were two alternatives, ok.

[G-Unit]

So there were two alternatives, ok.

Parents could also take their children with them, like the Carpenters or even stay in like the Wilkins.

[Eleanor]

That is rather hypothetical.

Isn't everything?

[The General]

Parents could also take their children with them, like the Carpenters or even stay in like the Wilkins.

Those sanctimonious do-gooders, having the audacity to pollute the party space with ankle biters.

[The General]

I question the morals of those who relentlessly criticise the McCanns online 13 years after her disappearance...perhaps I'm wrong and it isn't their morals I should question

In fairness I do my criticising from behind a fictitious online persona, being careful never to direct my poisonous invective at them in person, for fear of physical and legal reprisals.

[G-Unit]

Those sanctimonious do-gooders, having the audacity to pollute the party space with ankle biters.

Some party. So cold and windy the party-goers had to wear aimost every item of clothing they brought with them.

[Mr Gray]

In fairness I do my criticising from behind a fictitious online persona, being careful never to direct my poisonous invective at them in person, for fear of physical and legal reprisals.

My identity is known so I could occupy the moral high ground if it bothered me.

[Venturi Swirl]

Parents could also take their children with them, like the Carpenters or even stay in like the Wilkins.

Those were not part of the "plenty of alternatives" provided by Mark Warner, as you previously stated.  There were two.  Let's not hyperbolize now.

[Venturi Swirl]

Those sanctimonious do-gooders, having the audacity to pollute the party space with ankle biters.

Agreed.  Nothing worse than parents inflicting their noisy unpleasant misbehaving children on the rest of us while we're trying to enjoy a nice quiet evening out.  It's certainly very selfish!

[Robittybob1]

Parents could also take their children with them, like the Carpenters or even stay in like the Wilkins.

Does Bridget say she stayed in?   Jez is walking his child, we know that, (well at least we are told that there was a kid in the push chair, but did anyone confirm that?). But who knows what Bridget was doing prior to 9:30 PM.

[Anthro]

This is Mark’s latest tweet.

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