Scotland Yard and the PJ have stated the McCanns are not suspects.

[faithlilly]

there is a clip on dutch Tv where redwood declares that the mccanns are not suspects...so I don't think there is any misunderstanding....some people just don't want to accept it as their ideas are so entrenched

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otjtz8C-_p8

Redwood answers a direct question from the presenter and has to respond and he does so in the only possible way he can without fuelling all kinds of speculation.

[Alfred R Jones]

Faithlilly wants us to "imagine the speculation" if Redwood had refused to comment on whether or not the McCanns and their friends were persons of interest does she...?  Well, would that be a different sort of speculation I'd need to imagine to the sort that happens daily on sceptic forums in which it is speculated that when Redwood said they aren't suspects he actually meant they ARE suspects and is simply playing a clever long game...?

[Wonderfulspam]

there is a clip on dutch Tv where redwood declares that the mccanns are not suspects...so I don't think there is any misunderstanding....some people just don't want to accept it as their ideas are so entrenched

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otjtz8C-_p8

'They are parents whose daughter is lost.'

Not 'abducted' then.

Thought so.

[Alfred R Jones]

If Redwood wanted to put the wind up the McCanns and get them to crack because he thought they dunnit he would have refused to comment on whether or not they were still in the frame.  He might even have hinted that they were being investigated by saying "all theories and avenues are still being pursued, NOTHING and NOONE has been ruled out".  Imagine the stress on the McCanns if they actually were guilty, not to mention the stress it would put on their friends.  That would have been the clever thing to do, if the Met genuinely thought the McCanns and their friends had engaged in a cover-up.  But perhaps SY just aren't as clever as we thought, eh? 

[faithlilly]

Also here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsP9EVG4XHY

Yet again obviously a reply to a specific question.

Tell me Alfred what would you expect Redwood to say in that position ?

[Alfred R Jones]

It really is fkin absurd that we're even having this conversation, it really is.  Absolutely EVERYTHING that the Met has said in the last year points firmly and convincingly at the fact that the McCanns and their friends are not suspects and that the Met (and the PJ for that matter) are investigating other leads.  Anyone who thinks otherwise has done a very successful job in deluding themselves 100%.  Get real, doubters!

[faithlilly]

If Redwood wanted to put the wind up the McCanns and get them to crack because he thought they dunnit he would have refused to comment on whether or not they were still in the frame.  He might even have hinted that they were being investigated by saying "all theories and avenues are still being pursued, NOTHING and NOONE has been ruled out".  Imagine the stress on the McCanns if they actually were guilty, not to mention the stress it would put on their friends.  That would have been the clever thing to do, if the Met genuinely thought the McCanns and their friends had engaged in a cover-up.  But perhaps SY just aren't as clever as we thought, eh?

Saying he would not comment on whether the McCanns were suspects when he had answered all the churnalist's other questions would have simply fuelled speculation too.

[Alfred R Jones]

Saying he would not comment on whether the McCanns were suspects when he had answered all the churnalist's other questions would have simply fuelled speculation too.

So what?  Everything Redwood said has fuelled speculation in some quarter, it doesn't matter what he says - even when he categorically states one thing, you all speculate he means the complete opposite.  It's absurd and pathetic.

[Wonderfulspam]

Faithlilly wants us to "imagine the speculation" if Redwood had refused to comment on whether or not the McCanns and their friends were persons of interest does she...?  Well, would that be a different sort of speculation I'd need to imagine to the sort that happens daily on sceptic forums in which it is speculated that when Redwood said they aren't suspects he actually meant they ARE suspects and is simply playing a clever long game...?

To think that all Mr Redwood need do is show us, the hateful trolling public, this evidence he has which proves beyond doubt that the McCanns definitely didn't dunnit, then bingo , no more McCann trolling.

Not forgetting that the search for Madeleine would benefit enormously from the influx of newly converted searchers all joining the support group and atoning for their sins.

Why won't he just do that for them, for Maddie , why ? 

What a b*stard.

[sadie]

It really is fkin absurd that we're even having this conversation, it really is.  Absolutely EVERYTHING that the Met has said in the last year points firmly and convincingly at the fact that the McCanns and their friends are not suspects and that the Met (and the PJ for that matter) are investigating other leads.  Anyone who thinks otherwise has done a very successful job in deluding themselves 100%.  Get real, doubters!

Absurd seems the name of the game with some ... and it aint our side

[pathfinder73]

Madeleine may be dead, police say
Saturday, 11 August 2007

Police in Portugal have acknowledged for the first time that missing Madeleine McCann may be dead. 
Speaking to the BBC, one of the detectives leading the investigation said new evidence had given "intensity" to the possibility she was killed.

Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa said Kate and Gerry McCann were not being considered as suspects following recent rumours they were under suspicion.

Madeleine vanished 100 days ago in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz. 

Mr Sousa said renewed searches by detectives with British sniffer dogs have revealed clues which could point to Madeleine's death.

He was referring to traces of blood found inside the apartment room where Madeleine was sleeping, which are now being analysed by forensic scientists in Britain.

Mr Sousa refused to confirm or deny reports in Portuguese newspapers that the sniffer dogs had detected odours of a dead body that had been in the apartment.

The police spokesman made it clear that other lines of inquiry have not been ruled out.

He said Kate and Gerry McCann and their friends who had been on holiday with them were not being treated as suspects

A spokeswoman for the McCann family said: "It is obviously heartening that the police in Portugal have finally confirmed that Kate and Gerry McCann are not suspects following the hurtful and unhelpful comments that have been made this week.

"Kate and Gerry understand that the police in Portugal are working hard to do everything in their power to find Madeleine McCann.

"They continue to hope and pray that Madeleine is still alive."

Mr Sousa spoke after Kate and Gerry McCann attended a church service marking 100 days since Madeleine's disappearance.

The church of Nossa Senhora da Luz was packed with holidaymakers and locals, many wearing green and yellow to symbolise hope.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6942198.stm
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[Miss Taken Identity]

Yes, it is all in the grammar and interpretation.

They are defiantly NOT suspects in the involvement of their daughters disappearance. ( very clear)

is not the same as;

1. they are not being TREATED as suspects.
2. they are not being considered as suspects following reports on rumours ( no one said what the rumours were) what ever the rumours were the McCanns were not considered as suspects on those specifics.


There all sorted.

[Mr Gray]

Yes, it is all in the grammar and interpretation.

They are defiantly NOT suspects in the involvement of their daughters disappearance. ( very clear)

is not the same as;

1. they are not being TREATED as suspects.
2. they are not being considered as suspects following reports on rumours ( no one said what the rumours were) what ever the rumours were the McCanns were not considered as suspects on those specifics.


There all sorted.

SY have stated the mccanns are not suspects...fact...anything else is merely opinion

[pegasus]

Wouldn't it be a glaring omission if Mr Redwood spent millions of pounds without even bothering to interview
the last person known to have definitely seen the missing child.
Surely GM must have been interviewed by SY?

[sadie]

Wouldn't it be a glaring omission if Mr Redwood spent millions of pounds without even bothering to interview
the last person known to have definitely seen the missing child.
Surely GM must have been interviewed by SY?

Of course he has.

Pegasus, you are suprising me to even suggest that.