Cuddlect WAS washed...a most bizarre decision, but moving on, why have you included
a picture from a satire site so obviously created post August 2007 when talking about the "early days"? And why suggest no one was coming forward, being held back from doing so due to the contents of websites and the "portuguese press" which is utterly untrue for 2007 and all later years....you conveniently forgot to add what the British media were saying too....and as for people making up their mind in a vaccuum...people take what is available in the public domain and gradually get informed....your tryng to suggest people were brainwashed is insulting to people's intelligence and their right to their honest opinions...tryng to pin it all on the portuguese and especially as the mccanns have done on one man is shameful....
Myths will get debunked, if some still believe the mccanns washed their curtains, went to chaplins or bleached their apartment, tis for them to grapple with, not for you to use the misconceptions in a blanket denigragion of all who have legitimate questions or "just dont believe" the mccanns....their own behaviours over the years have raised eyebrows in so many circles, so dont kid yourself
I don't think it was a bizarre decision to wash CC. I don't know why some people are up in arms about it. Kate said it didn't smell of Madeleine it smelt of suntan cream, Kate should know the smell of her own child.
There were many other things which had Madeleine's smell on them at home, so it is ridiculous to say that Kate shouldn't have washed it.
Amelie was hugging it and no doubt putting it in her mouth as all small children do, so washing it was the best hygienic thing to do.