Is there more circumstantial evidence against the mccanns than there is CB

[Brietta]

Someone said her initial reaction was because she didn't know all the circumstances at the time. In 2008 she knew all the circumstances, but was willing to repeat what she had thought and to add;

she said she could understand public anger at the couple for going to dinner while their children slept unattended in an unlocked apartment more than 50 yards away.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1017189/Where-night-Kate-What-grandmother-said-told-Madeleine-snatched.html

If you read on you will come across
"Social services did visit the McCanns' home in Rothley, Leicestershire, and said they were satisfied with the couple's childcare arrangements."https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1017189/Where-night-Kate-What-grandmother-said-told-Madeleine-snatched.html

Please bear it in mind for future reference.

[G-Unit]

You tend to cherry pick your quotes a tad I think.  It goes on to say ...

The lawyers then talked to us about applying for an order to make Madeleine a ward of court.
Wardship status gives the courts certain statutory powers to act on a child’s behalf in any legal disputes and to bypass some of the data-protection laws that deal with access to information (hotel guest records, for example, and airline passenger lists), when knowledge of this information is considered to be in the interests of the child in question.

Such an order could be useful in acquiring records not otherwise available to us that might be relevant in
our case. We decided to proceed with an application, which was granted in due course.  madeleine ... Kate McCann

The lawyers in question were from a firm of specialists in family law, the International Family Law Group (IFLG) whose visit to Portugal was as the result of an offer to help.
Do you think taking advice which was aimed at securing Madeleine's best interests is worth a pejorative mention?  I've got to admit your attitude puzzles me.

Now, as I was saying ~ offers of help (also detailed in madeleine) included the appraisal of the horrible reality of the possibility that a paedophile was responsible for taking Madeleine.
You seem to be concentrating on Kate and Gerry who despite the extensive documentation available remain clear of anything approaching evidence against them (sceptic shibboleths just don't count) ignoring the other half of the equation in the thread title.
Don't you think it is time to lay off the McCanns and time instead to discuss Brueckner's inviolable rights.

You asked for a cite and I provided it.

As to Brueckner, I have not seen much in the way of evidence connecting him to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

[Eleanor]

Someone said her initial reaction was because she didn't know all the circumstances at the time. In 2008 she knew all the circumstances, but was willing to repeat what she had thought and to add;

she said she could understand public anger at the couple for going to dinner while their children slept unattended in an unlocked apartment more than 50 yards away.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1017189/Where-night-Kate-What-grandmother-said-told-Madeleine-snatched.html

Not quite what you have been implying, is it.

[G-Unit]

Not quite what you have been implying, is it.

Implying? I'm declaring that Mrs Healy found it as disturbing as others did that the children were left home alone, and understood exactly why people were horrified.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Implying? I'm declaring that Mrs Healy found it as disturbing as others did that the children were left home alone, and understood exactly why people were horrified.

You'd have thought that "people" would have gotten over it by now.  I'm sure Mrs Healey has found it in her heart to forgive her daughter, why can't those who have sweet FA to do with her do the same?

[G-Unit]

If you read on you will come across
"Social services did visit the McCanns' home in Rothley, Leicestershire, and said they were satisfied with the couple's childcare arrangements."https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1017189/Where-night-Kate-What-grandmother-said-told-Madeleine-snatched.html

Please bear it in mind for future reference.

As far as I know Social Services made no public comment whatsoever on the subject, so I don't think they; "said they were satisfied with the couple's childcare arrangements." to the Daily Mail.

[G-Unit]

You'd have thought that "people" would have gotten over it by now.  I'm sure Mrs Healey has found it in her heart to forgive her daughter, why can't those who have sweet FA to do with her do the same?

Forgiveness has nothing to do with it.

[Eleanor]

Forgiveness has nothing to do with it.

"Don't do it again, Kate."  "No, no, I won't."   Anything else?  Or do you want sack cloth and ashes?

Sheesh, this is awful.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Forgiveness has nothing to do with it.

what's it got to do with then, the continual need to harp on about the McCanns "neglect" 13 plus years after the event?  do explain.

[G-Unit]

what's it got to do with then, the continual need to harp on about the McCanns "neglect" 13 plus years after the event?  do explain.

Surely you realise it's an integral part of the abduction theory? For a child to be abducted there has to be an opportunity for the abductor to abduct.

[Eleanor]

Surely you realise it's an integral part of the abduction theory? For a child to be abducted there has to be an opportunity for the abductor to abduct.

Even The Portuguese Judiciary didn't think there was any intent to neglect, which there obviously wasn't.

But since it would have taken all of two minutes to abduct this child, how often they checked doesn't actually come in to it.

And you don't appear to believe that Madeleine was abducted, so why keep on about it, 13 blimmin years later?

[Vertigo Swirl]

Surely you realise it's an integral part of the abduction theory? For a child to be abducted there has to be an opportunity for the abductor to abduct.

That has got absolutely NOTHING to do with my point but as you come to mention it - were the kids abandoned on the night of the 3rd or were there adults checking on them regularly making abduction according to yourself virtually impossible?  Which is it?

[G-Unit]

That has got absolutely NOTHING to do with my point but as you come to mention it - were the kids abandoned on the night of the 3rd or were there adults checking on them regularly making abduction according to yourself virtually impossible?  Which is it?

That, as they say, is the question. Just one of the questions that some people wonder about and others think should be forgotten.

The questions arose mostly from the accounts given by the T9, of course. It was them who claimed to have left all their children home alone for five nights and it was them who described the checking regime on 3rd May.

[faithlilly]

Someone said her initial reaction was because she didn't know all the circumstances at the time. In 2008 she knew all the circumstances, but was willing to repeat what she had thought and to add;

she said she could understand public anger at the couple for going to dinner while their children slept unattended in an unlocked apartment more than 50 yards away.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1017189/Where-night-Kate-What-grandmother-said-told-Madeleine-snatched.html

That’s pretty damning.

[Robittybob1]

Someone said her initial reaction was because she didn't know all the circumstances at the time. In 2008 she knew all the circumstances, but was willing to repeat what she had thought and to add;

she said she could understand public anger at the couple for going to dinner while their children slept unattended in an unlocked apartment more than 50 yards away.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1017189/Where-night-Kate-What-grandmother-said-told-Madeleine-snatched.html

The keyword is "UNLOCKED" IMO.