KM's Paperback (PB)

[Erngath]

I laughed too at her bloody audacity.  She should have stayed in Portugal and looked for her child, not expected everyone else to do it for her.

Just herself?
Or kept the twins in Portugal?
Where would she begin the search?
In PDL or where?


I believe that your theory is that Madeleine woke and wandered and was killed in a hit but not run and the driver removed Madeleine's body and secreted it where?
 Where do you suggest Kate should look for her child's body?

[Vertigo Swirl]

Kate's book is the biggest load of CRAP I've ever read.  She goes on holiday with three toddlers and returns home with two. When asked to answer the simplest of questions she bottles it and refuses.  And then she decides to write a book looking for sympathy and blaming just about every Portuguese cop who had the bad luck to cross her path.

Not that you’re biased or owt.  You seem terribly bitter, which I find a bit strange...

[Wonderfulspam]

We're all going to look rather silly when SY catch the abductor & Maddie turns up alive & well.
Shouldn't be much longer now.

[Angelo222]

We're all going to look rather silly when SY catch the abductor & Maddie turns up alive & well.
Shouldn't be much longer now.

Don't hold your breath.

[Brietta]

The McCanns didn't like being investigated by cops which they clearly thought were unintelligent and stupid. I know who my money is on.

For davel's benefit, the book was nothing more than an attempt to point the blame anywhere except at her own door.  Poor me comes across in every page I have read. That fcuking tosser Ricardo Paiva, Tweedledee and Tweedledum were incompetent.

I think you've got the wrong end of the stick there, Angelo.

Of course Kate was critical of cops whose methods of 'solving' a case was to illegally use the media to drip poison to turn public opinion into misinformed hostility.

But she stressed her admiration for those officers who particularly in the early days worked selflessly for Madeleine.  Her contempt was for those breaking Portuguese law to 'solve'the case and their ineptitude in doing a competent and honest job.
Criticism of the few not the many not for the sake of it but because it was warranted ... the same sort of criticism we would and do have for corrupt British police who cut corners for expediency not efficiency.  Because they are Portuguese just doesn't absolve them.

Snip
I hasten to add that I do not mean to tar all of the Portuguese police with the same brush. There were many officers who worked very hard on the case, certainly early on, and their efforts to get to the truth were being undermined by these disgraceful actions just as surely as ours were.  madeleine:  Kate McCann

[Holly Goodhead]

According to KM she received a call from Cherie Blair (one Catholic, who was also fond of discussing her sex life, to another) who put KM in touch with Catherine Meyer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Meyer,_Baroness_Meyer

Imagine, a young couple from Grimbsy who met in residential care scrape enough money together to take their 3 young children to Yarmouth for a week in a caravan.  The parents decide to leave their sleeping children in the unlocked caravan while they go out for 'happy hour' at the onsite bar some 50m from the caravan.  When they return they find 3 year old Waynetta missing.  Would they receive a call from Cherie Blair putting them in touch with Catherine Meyer? 

[Vertigo Swirl]

According to KM she received a call from Cherie Blair (one Catholic, who was also fond of discussing her sex life, to another) who put KM in touch with Catherine Meyer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Meyer,_Baroness_Meyer

Imagine, a young couple from Grimbsy who met in residential care scrape enough money together to take their 3 young children to Yarmouth for a week in a caravan.  The parents decide to leave their sleeping children in the unlocked caravan while they go out for 'happy hour' at the onsite bar some 50m from the caravan.  When they return they find 3 year old Waynetta missing.  Would they receive a call from Cherie Blair putting them in touch with Catherine Meyer?

Oh dear, another one sounding bitter and resentful tonight.  Is it the fault of Kate or her book that Cherie Blair contacted her?  I tell you what though, had it been little Waynetta missing from a caravan park in Grimbsy y’all wouldn’t still be picking the bones over and giving them a good gnaw 12 years later...

[Brietta]

According to KM she received a call from Cherie Blair (one Catholic, who was also fond of discussing her sex life, to another) who put KM in touch with Catherine Meyer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Meyer,_Baroness_Meyer

Imagine, a young couple from Grimbsy who met in residential care scrape enough money together to take their 3 young children to Yarmouth for a week in a caravan.  The parents decide to leave their sleeping children in the unlocked caravan while they go out for 'happy hour' at the onsite bar some 50m from the caravan.  When they return they find 3 year old Waynetta missing.  Would they receive a call from Cherie Blair putting them in touch with Catherine Meyer?

In my opinion your opening sentence is openly bigoted sectarianism.

In my opinion your closing paragraph is nothing more or less than chanting a sceptic mantra often found adorning the comment sections of any publication which prints anything about the McCann family.
Your post consists therefore in my opinion of disgusting sceptic chanting unworthy of civilised debate let alone a mixed forum and not a sceptic cess pit where such sentiments are considered not offensive but laudable..

[Holly Goodhead]

Oh dear, another one sounding bitter and resentful tonight.  Is it the fault of Kate or her book that Cherie Blair contacted her?  I tell you what though, had it been little Waynetta missing from a caravan park in Grimbsy y’all wouldn’t still be picking the bones over and giving them a good gnaw 12 years later...

No not bitter and resentful just highlighting one rule for one and one for another. 

[Brietta]

Oh dear, another one sounding bitter and resentful tonight.  Is it the fault of Kate or her book that Cherie Blair contacted her?  I tell you what though, had it been little Waynetta missing from a caravan park in Grimbsy y’all wouldn’t still be picking the bones over and giving them a good gnaw 12 years later...

Cherie Blair contacted Kate to pass on some useful information about an organisation called PACT – Parents and Abducted Children Together and Kate took the opportunity to lobby for government help for Madeleine.

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I asked Cherie if there was anything the British government could offer the Portuguese in the way of resources to assist or expedite the search for Madeleine.  madeleine:  Kate McCann

[Holly Goodhead]

In my opinion your opening sentence is openly bigoted sectarianism.

Not really just highlighting the hypocrisy re Catholicism and sex ie solely for procreation!

In my opinion your closing paragraph is nothing more or less than chanting a sceptic mantra often found adorning the comment sections of any publication which prints anything about the McCann family.
Your post consists therefore in my opinion of disgusting sceptic chanting unworthy of civilised debate let alone a mixed forum and not a sceptic cess pit where such sentiments are considered not offensive but laudable..

Not really just highlighting the fact that had the McCanns been teenage parents and working/underclass in all probability they would have received short shrift for leaving their children in such perilous circumstances as opposed to phone calls from the PM's wife wanting to assist. 

[Vertigo Swirl]

No not bitter and resentful just highlighting one rule for one and one for another.

And who made the rules?

[Holly Goodhead]

And who made the rules?

And who enforces them?

[G-Unit]

According to Kate's book she and her husband learned a lot about the abduction of children after their daughter disappeared. Very early on they decided that something should be done;

3rd June 2007
We discussed the need we felt to do our utmost to prevent this from happening to another child; to prevent another family from having to go through what we were going through. We had to ensure that something positive for someone, even if it wasn’t us, came out of this horrific experience. [madeleine]

I wonder what they have been doing to help? Especially during the years since Operation Grange took over the 'search for Madeleine'.

[pathfinder73]

The McCanns didn't like being investigated by cops which they clearly thought were unintelligent and stupid. I know who my money is on.

For davel's benefit, the book was nothing more than an attempt to point the blame anywhere except at her own door.  Poor me comes across in every page I have read. That fcuking tosser Ricardo Paiva, Tweedledee and Tweedledum were incompetent.

It's a book written after studying the files e.g she could now explain her fingerprints by now looking out of the window which was not in her original statements. Nothing like hindsight! They don't mention why they deleted mobile records and received new mobiles on 4 May 2007 or the reason for all her mobile activity on Tuesday quiz night etc. Some say it was to do with Gerry's flirting with the quiz girl. Gerry stormed off the next night - was that connected to quiz night and the real reason why Kate slept in the spare bed?