Latest news on the search for Madeleine McCann

[Redblossom]

Mon dieu - if this were to be the case, where will SY turn to next?

Dont tempt fate!  Lol

[John]

Madeleine McCann madness continues - and leaves her parents with nothing once more!

Scotland Yard detectives probing Madeleine McCann’s disappearance are saying she might have been taken by three burglars who’d been robbing apartments in the area.

Seriously? Burglars? I’m sorry, but the kind of crooks who break into holiday lets are looking for a few euros, mobiles and a bit of jewellery.

They don’t see a little girl and think, “Oh we’ll take her instead”. They’d run a mile rather than kidnap a child because they’re small-time.

And while they have contacts who can “fence” baubles and cameras, they’re unlikely to have any who can sell children.

The Met are saying they believe these burglars could have taken Maddie because the night she disappeared they were making lots of calls to each other.

Well they would if they were on the rob in an area where cops had been alerted that a little girl was missing.

And if the Met has to write “request letters” to the Portuguese police asking if they can search these men’s homes and access their bank accounts, how close are they to arresting anyone?



Four officers from Operation Grange in Portugal last week, are now back in London having made no arrests.

How devastating this must all be for Kate and Gerry McCann – another flurry of headlines, more promises of suspects and arrests... and then nothing. Again!


www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/carole-malone-madeleine-mccann-madness-3102268

[Eleanor]

Any reported ordinary burglaries that night?

And who is to say that they weren't recruited to specifically abduct a Child?  Burglars are low lifes who mix with low lifes.
Or are we going to have a thread protecting poor, benighted burglars in a minute?

[Estuarine]

Any reported ordinary burglaries that night?

And who is to say that they weren't recruited to specifically abduct a Child?  Burglars are low lifes who mix with low lifes.
Or are we going to have a thread protecting poor, benighted burglars in a minute?

Probably not; but Eleanor you would do yourself a favour if you mugged up a bit on how the criminal world actually works then maybe you would wiser better informed

[Eleanor]

Probably not; but Eleanor you would do yourself a favour if you mugged up a bit on how the criminal world actually works then maybe you would wiser better informed

Oh, I see.  They all stick to their own little field of criminality, do they?  You are either naive or utterly stupid.
You will be telling us next that people with jobs don't commit crimes.

[slartibartfast]

Oh, I see.  They all stick to their own little field of criminality, do they?  You are either naive or utterly stupid.
You will be telling us next that people with jobs don't commit crimes.

Have you ever broken the speed limit?

[Eleanor]

Have you ever broken the speed limit?

As it happens, No.  Not even when driving the Aston Martin.

[slartibartfast]

As it happens, No.  Not even when driving the Aston Martin.

You have never gone faster than the stated speed limit?

[Mr Gray]

Probably not; but Eleanor you would do yourself a favour if you mugged up a bit on how the criminal world actually works then maybe you would wiser better informed

if you are saying you are familiar with the ways criminals operate I wouldn't have thought that this incudes criminals who would abduct  a young child

[jassi]

As it happens, No.  Not even when driving the Aston Martin.

Understandable - these pedal cars don't go very fast  http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19283/lot/172/

[Sherlock Holmes]

Heri's links (which a poster on Myths had found) were not theses on statistics.

Here's the post again.
http://miscarriageofjustice.co/index.php?topic=2784.msg124879#msg124879

My own view is that there is nothing, so far, to indicate the she (or Joana) have been murdered, although they may have been.

On the other hand, these limited studies do tend to indicate that many perpetrators of more serious crimes had already committed less serious ones. The obvious caveat is that a one-time petty burglar / pickpocket / thief / drug user is not necessarily responsible for, nor connected to, a serious crime in the vicinity. However, I can see the reasons for wanting to thoroughly investigating such people to eliminate them and move on. This doesn't seem to have been done in the first instance.

Just to clarify, Heriberto linked this thesis on 6th January which contains a lot of information and discussion about how statistics and records of crimes are compiled, and how this affects our understanding of them:

http://justicestudies.sjsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/thesis-final-pedneault.pdf

[Estuarine]

Scam us  ?   

I don't think we're being  scammed  ...   but there is certainly a possibility that we are being mislead

How many of these stories have we been fed in recent months  ?  ...  dead heroin addict tractor driver,  child stealing  gypsies,  rogue  'cleaners',  and now,  burglars turned child snatcher

You see,  whilst we are given an endless parade of increasingly grotesque suspects we are constantly  'reminded' that the culprit  ...  the perpetrator  ...  the  abductor  is  'out there'   somewhere,  and we don't  stop to wonder,  "hang on,  if there  is  no real suspect,  perhaps the Portuguese were right all along,  and there  was  no abduction"

I think this deserves a bump!


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Twos up on that

[Benice]

Oh, I see.  They all stick to their own little field of criminality, do they?  You are either naive or utterly stupid.
You will be telling us next that people with jobs don't commit crimes.

IMO all this 'ridiculing'  that goes on about burglars etc is from people who simply don't want to believe that Madeleine was abducted in the first place.         

It comes to something when even if a paedaphile or any other potential suspect  was in the area around the same time  - they cannot possibly have been involved if they've since died!    Where's the logic in that?

[Wonderfulspam]

IMO all this 'ridiculing'  that goes on about burglars etc is from people who simply don't want to believe that Madeleine was abducted in the first place.         

It comes to something when even if a paedaphile or any other potential suspect  was in the area around the same time  - they cannot possibly have been involved if they've since died!    Where's the logic in that?

Imo, all these ridiculous stories about paedos & burglars are invented by people who simply don't want to believe that Maddie wasn't abducted in the first place.

[stephen25000]

Imo, all these ridiculous stories about paedos & burglars are invented by people who simply don't want to believe that Maddie wasn't abducted in the first place.

Precisely.

These stories have continued to to dive into the depths of stupidity.