A Good, Bad or Average Theory What's The Difference?

[barrier]

No one left any evidence of this alleged abduction in 5a,a little old wall pales.

[faithlilly]

For anyone who thinks that 9 people aren’t capable of sustaining a coverup, or wouldn’t risk their jobs/reputation by lying to an official investigation in my opinion should watch the documentary shown on Channel 4 last night about the Lubbock case.

[Vertigo Swirl]

For anyone who thinks that 9 people aren’t capable of sustaining a coverup, or wouldn’t risk their jobs/reputation by lying to an official investigation in my opinion should watch the documentary shown on Channel 4 last night about the Lubbock case.

Of course cover ups involving more than one person occur, and of course people have risked their jobs / reputation by lying to the police.  This is not news.  Each case is different.  The McCann case is not remotely similar to the Stuart Lubbock case.  There was means, motive and opportunity in the latter which there simply isn’t in the former.  IMO. 

[Mr Gray]

For anyone who thinks that 9 people aren’t capable of sustaining a coverup, or wouldn’t risk their jobs/reputation by lying to an official investigation in my opinion should watch the documentary shown on Channel 4 last night about the Lubbock case.

are the 9 covering up for themselves to hide their involveemnt in the crime...thats the difference

[faithlilly]

Of course cover ups involving more than one person occur, and of course people have risked their jobs / reputation by lying to the police.  This is not news.  Each case is different.  The McCann case is not remotely similar to the Stuart Lubbock case.  There was means, motive and opportunity in the latter which there simply isn’t in the former.  IMO.

The means can only be guessed at, the motive, similarly, can only be guessed at.

[faithlilly]

are the 9 covering up for themselves to hide their involveemnt in the crime...thats the difference

Perhaps.

[Mr Gray]

Perhaps.

or perhaps not..

[faithlilly]

Well that's, that sorted then.  In your opinion

It’s not opinion....it happened.

[Eleanor]

It’s not opinion....it happened.

The Police have solved The Lubbock Case then, have they?

[faithlilly]

The Police have solved The Lubbock Case then, have they?

Of course not but with all the people at Barrymore’s bungalow confined to such a small space it’s almost impossible for them all  not to know at least part of what happened.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Of course not but with all the people at Barrymore’s bungalow confined to such a small space it’s almost impossible for them all  not to know at least part of what happened.

And you think that’s like the McCann case do you?  All crammed into a bungalow while a crime was committed?

[faithlilly]

And you think that’s like the McCann case do you?  All crammed into a bungalow while a crime was committed?

I’m not sure whether you’re being deliberately obtuse or truly don’t understand my point.

In the Lubbock case at least nine people have covered up a crime by a perpetrator/perpetrators they probably didn’t know very well and in the process risked their own livelihood and freedom. We were told that it is a ridiculous suggestion that 7 people, some who didn’t know the parents very well, would risk their livelihoods and freedom by lying for the parents. After watching the Lubbock documentary that suggestion doesn’t seem so ridiculous after all.

[Vertigo Swirl]

I’m not sure whether you’re being deliberately obtuse or truly don’t understand my point.

In the Lubbock case at least nine people have covered up a crime by a perpetrator/perpetrators they probably didn’t know very well and in the process risked their own livelihood and freedom. We were told that it is a ridiculous suggestion that 7 people, some who didn’t know the parents very well, would risk their livelihoods and freedom by lying for the parents. After watching the Lubbock documentary that suggestion doesn’t seem so ridiculous after all.

I do understand your point and I have already responded to it, see earlier post above.  Do you just want me to keep on repeating it, or should the discussion move on?

[Vertigo Swirl]

Here’s an equivalent argument:  we were told that it’s ridiculous to think that a stranger would be able to enter a premises and pick up a sleeping child without it waking and screaming the place down, but the Alesha McPhail case proves this is not such a ridiculous idea after all.   

[faithlilly]

Here’s an equivalent argument:  we were told that it’s ridiculous to think that a stranger would be able to enter a premises and pick up a sleeping child without it waking and screaming the place down, but the Alesha McPhail case proves this is not such a ridiculous idea after all.

I don’t remember anyone saying it was impossible but even Madeleine’s gran thought it was highly unlikely that if taken out of her bed by a stranger that she wouldn’t scream the place down. Further it’s not entirely clear whether the young man who killed Alesha was a stranger to her.

So with reference to other cases it is clear that it is possible for a group of people, not especially close to each other, to hide a criminal act even when it may lead to the loss of their livelihood and freedom and it is also possible to remove a sleeping child from a bedroom without them screaming the place down.

What you believe is simply a matter of opinion.