The parents of a missing child don't matter.

[Brietta]

I think SY keeping their mouths firmly shut is the right thing to do. Why Redwood didn't I can't imagine. What majority? Has there been a headcount?

That it was considered necessary to officially remove Madeleine McCann's parents and their friends from the equation shows an awareness of the customary abuse they, as the parents of a missing child have been subjected to.

Not I would think it the statement of an individual but a statement made after thought and discussion ... the necessity for which should make some hang their heads in black burning shame ... if they were capable of that emotion.

[G-Unit]

That it was considered necessary to officially remove Madeleine McCann's parents and their friends from the equation shows an awareness of the customary abuse they, as the parents of a missing child have been subjected to.

Not I would think it the statement of an individual but a statement made after thought and discussion ... the necessity for which should make some hang their heads in black burning shame ... if they were capable of that emotion.

That is just your opinion, not that of SY, unless they told you so? Otherwise it was what Redwood thought two years ago.

[Alfred R Jones]

That is just your opinion, not that of SY, unless they told you so? Otherwise it was what Redwood thought two years ago.

Consider all the action taken by the Met and the PJ since that statement was made 2 years ago and then tell me if there is anything at all that has been done that leads you to believe that the McCanns are suspects?  Now do the same exercise and again but this time ask yourself what conclusions about the direction the investigation has taken (based on these actions) any logically-minded person should draw?

[Brietta]

That is just your opinion, not that of SY, unless they told you so? Otherwise it was what Redwood thought two years ago.

Merely a logical deduction based on myriads of evidence regarding the malice I know is heaped on Madeleine McCann's parents ... and something to which Operation Grange became accustomed from its inception through numerous FOI requests and the outrage engendered by the fact there was an official review into Madeleine's disappearance.

[G-Unit]

Merely a logical deduction based on myriads of evidence regarding the malice I know is heaped on Madeleine McCann's parents ... and something to which Operation Grange became accustomed from its inception through numerous FOI requests and the outrage engendered by the fact there was an official review into Madeleine's disappearance.

Here's a somewhat more logical logical deduction. Operation Grange was set up to review/investigate an abduction. It is unlikely that Madeleine's parents and their friends abducted Madeleine. Therefore they and their friends are not suspects.

[Brietta]

Here's a somewhat more logical logical deduction. Operation Grange was set up to review/investigate an abduction. It is unlikely that Madeleine's parents and their friends abducted Madeleine. Therefore they and their friends are not suspects.

Delighted you recognise that Madeleine's parents and their friends are not suspects ... it will be a good day when those who question that arrive at the same conclusion and give up their pass time of showing their ignorance with every McCann related comment they feel the compulsion to make.

[jassi]

Here's a somewhat more logical logical deduction. Operation Grange was set up to review/investigate an abduction. It is unlikely that Madeleine's parents and their friends abducted Madeleine. Therefore they and their friends are not suspects.

Absolutely spot on - to investigate nothing else.
Not sure what the position will be if no abduction can actually be proved.

[Alice Purjorick]

Absolutely spot on - to investigate nothing else.
Not sure what the position will be if no abduction can actually be proved.

Imagine The Met. finding that the original investigation was thorough apart from a few minor holes The Met plugged then to declare "Well we don't know what if any crime was committed", as you were.
I wouldn't quibble would you?

[G-Unit]

Delighted you recognise that Madeleine's parents and their friends are not suspects ... it will be a good day when those who question that arrive at the same conclusion and give up their pass time of showing their ignorance with every McCann related comment they feel the compulsion to make.

Sigh...my deduction was that they are not suspected of abducting Madeleine. I have no idea if abduction is still the remit or if it has changed.

[Alfred R Jones]

Here's a somewhat more logical logical deduction. Operation Grange was set up to review/investigate an abduction. It is unlikely that Madeleine's parents and their friends abducted Madeleine. Therefore they and their friends are not suspects.

Are you trying to tell us that Op Grange are only allowed to investigate one possible theory? 

[G-Unit]

Are you trying to tell us that Op Grange are only allowed to investigate one possible theory?

Remit.

[Alice Purjorick]

"Merely a logical deduction based on myriads of evidence regarding the malice I know is heaped on Madeleine McCann's parents ... and something to which Operation Grange became accustomed from its inception through numerous FOI requests and the outrage engendered by the fact there was an official review into Madeleine's disappearance".

Anyone for "spot the fact".
I make it three; any advance?

[Alfred R Jones]

Remit.

So what would happen if, in the course of their investigations, they discovered that Madeleine hadn't been abducted?  End of investigation?

[Lace]

Here's a somewhat more logical logical deduction. Operation Grange was set up to review/investigate an abduction. It is unlikely that Madeleine's parents and their friends abducted Madeleine. Therefore they and their friends are not suspects.

Andy Redwood also said they are 'not persons of interest'    in other words,  they didn't have anything to do with the disappearance of Madeleine.

[Alice Purjorick]

Andy Redwood also said they are 'not persons of interest'    in other words,  they didn't have anything to do with the disappearance of Madeleine.

Which is not quite what the ACC of Leicestershire Police said.