After the way they were shamefully accused in their arguido interviews, why do you suppose they would trust further proposed actions?
It wasn't about them, it was about co-operating with the investigation into the disappearance of their daughter.
Jon Gaunt
Published: 16 May 2008
WHAT is it with the McCanns? They say they will do anything to help find Maddie but are still dragging their feet over returning to Portugal for a reconstruction of the fateful night when they left Maddie and her twin siblings home alone.
Sources close to them say they have "serious reservations".
Why? What serious reservations?
Their spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, asks: "What is the value?"
So now this ex-BBC reporter, Government spin doctor and PR man is suddenly Columbo or Morse, is he?
I'm sorry, but let's remember they are still prime suspects and if the Portuguese plods want them in Portugal they should be there — reservations or not.
Kelvin MacKenzie (Editor of the Sun 1981-1994)
29/05/2008
I am puzzled at the refusal of the McCanns to fly to the Algarve today for a police reconstruction of the night Madeleine disappeared.
It is said they are suspicous of police motives and do not believe it will help find their daughter.
Are they really the best placed people to make that decision? after all, they remain the leading suspects in the case and despite Portuguese police handling the investigation badly, the law remains their best hope for justice.
Already the McCanns have tried worldwide publicity - including roping in the pope - and that didn't work.
They have taken the public's money and spent it on £50,000-a-month private detectives, and that certainly hasn't worked.
Those with decent memories may well recall these private eyes claiming they would have Madeleine home by christmas.
So why wouldn't the Mccanns and the Tapas seven try one more throw of the dice ? according to a "friend", it would have disrupted their family and business schedules.
Their "schedules" have already been disrupted and tragically will remain so for as long as Madeleine remains missing.
Could I urge them to have a change of heart and co-operate with the police.
Until they do so my personal jury will remain out.
Carole Malone
01/06/2008
So, it isn't just Kate and Gerry who have refused to go back to Portugal for a police reconstuction of Maddies disappearance.
We now learn that at least four of the Tapas seven have also refused because they too left their kids alone when they went drinking that fateful night.
Are they worried that like the McCanns, they might also become suspects?
Er, so what happened to the "We'll do whatever is necessary to find Maddie" mantra? Did that come with the proviso that they'll do "whatever's necessary" as long as it doesn't embarrass them, inconvenience them or put them in any personal danger?
Anyway, I don't see the problem.
If these people have nothing to hide, if they really DO want to help find Maddie, why haven't they already hauled their backsides back to Portugal?http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/Nigel/id118.htm