[kj] OT : Maddy ... I might be wrong ...

[Steve Hackett]

pretty much my feelings Antoni - Ive always felt sorry for the other 
children - not only have they lost a sister but since the disappearance 
they've lost their parents too..
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Subject: [kj] OT : Maddy ... I might be wrong ...



>* http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6983604.stm *

>

> This saga has now got rather political ... but as the Portugese 

> authorities, media and tourism industry has had to deal with this 

> unprecedented adverse publicity for over 4 months now, I suspect that 

> everyone has got pretty fed up with it all and want closure ... the 

> problem with the McCann's is that, whether they did do it or not, they 

> (and their family and friends) have burnt too many bridges and made too 

> many enemies on foreign soil, so that if the police think they have 

> sufficient evidence to convict, they are prepared to do so and in some 

> countries being charged is the worst thing possible, you are guilty unless 

> you can prove you are innocent (hello Kalamata) ... if and when they are 

> formally charged, Kate McCann has a stark choice (especially if she is 

> innocent) to enter into a plea bargain, take the rap and be out in a year 

> or face a considerable and unpleasant time in jail. Personally, I feel 

> they have brought it upon themselves.

>

> Like many others, I've been in many discussions from day one about it all 

> being strange, the lack of emotion, leaving young kids unattended to go 

> out for a meal, a highly organised media campaign ... all these things 

> probably don't endear the family to the locals and could easily add to a 

> whispering campaign against them ... for my own part when, after 8 days, 

> we had the sight of Everton players wearing t-shirts and a minute's 

> silence at a Chelsea FC football match, I couldn't help thinking that 

> truly distraught parents just wouldn't be doing such things ... surely the 

> not knowing would make complete wrecks of them ... were these just actions 

> of a highly intellegent & calculating man, trying to cover up that fact 

> that his wife had accidently killed their 3 year old with sedatives ? 

> Maybe, I just don't know ... but with the parents travelling to see the 

> pope, the US president and all those visits to other countries whilst 

> countless other children go missing ... it is all very strange to me ...

>

> Another thing that always bugged me was that if the child was abducted, 

> surely such a widespread publicity campaign would make it almost 

> impossible for that child to come back alive ... the real cynic would say 

> that if they put as much effort into the original childcare arrangements, 

> none of this would ever have occurred.

>

> Regards, Antoni

>

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