You cannot move the goal posts after the goal has been scored Carana. I have changed it back.
Clearly abduction in the UK differs from that which takes place elsewhere involving other cultures.
For example you cannot compare an abduction which takes place in England to that which takes place in Siberia or India for a multitude of reasons.
If you wish to discuss abduction in Europe please open a new thread.
Of course, and as we know, Madeleine wasn't abducted in the UK. So what was the significance of Amaral citing the report that Harrison showed him about UK statistics in his book?
If you read it quickly, it gives the impression that in 96% of cases of crimes against children, the parents/friends are responsible, i.e. it gives the impression to the average reader that there was an overwhelming probability that the parents/T7 were involved. He seems to be mixing all the subsets of crime: child sexual abuse (in which family, friends and persons in authority would obviously form the majority due to access), with murder and abduction. Then he jumps to the conclusion that in only 4% of cases is a child murderer/abductor a stranger.
I have doubts that he correctly understood the report, or else it's badly worded. Unfortunately, I haven't found the report that he appears to be referring to online to read it for myself.
AMAZING STATISTICS
Great Britain has at its disposal the world’s biggest data bank on homicide of children under five years old. Since 1960, the count is 1528. Harrison is well acquainted with its contents. He often draws information from there which helps him to resolve similar cases. Valuable information can be found there on on various criminal modus operandi, places where bodies are hidden, techniques used to get rid of a body. He relates that on one occasion, thanks to the data, he was able to deduce the maximum distance a body might be found in relation to where the crime had been committed.
The figures quoted in the report he hands over give us the shivers. The crimes, including those of a sexual nature, are committed by the parents in 84% of cases; 96% are perpetrated by friends and relatives. In only 4% of them is the murderer or abductor a total stranger to the victim. In this roundabout way, Mark Harrison points out that the guilty party may be a person close to Madeleine, and even her own parents. From now on, we have to explore this track, especially as the others have proved fruitless.
