I have to say that I have never accepted the theory that Gerry and/or Kate McCann were responsible for their daughter's alleged murder. For one thing, from the moment they declared her missing they didn't have the time or oppurtunity. The blood stain could have come from one of Madeleine's shoes and there is no way they could have hid a body in the car and buried it oppositte the Church without anyone knowing. The smell and the easy chance of being spotted puts paid to that.
So I am hopeful that these turn of events will help vindicate them. If anything my respect for the McCann's has grown. Waking up and facing each day must be hard enough without being labelled as suspects and the threat of their twins taken away from them.
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My thoughts go out to the McCanns. They are clearly victims of a lazy and disgusting Anglophobic witch-hunt
Innocent until proven guilty, of course, but the press are making a meal of how the couple have faced "gruelling questioning" from the Portuguese police and that the McCanns are tired and exhausted from "their ordeal". What do the press and the McCanns expect?
I also still believe there is a class issue here, mainly drummed up by the British national press. If the couple were working class and not articulate and suspicions were starting to fall on them, would the press be so sympathetic? I very much doubt it.
PS It's good to be back...
You're right, there are other ways that all this supposed DNA evidence (which apparently contradicts itself in any case) could have appeared, but no-one appears to be any closer to finding Madeleine which seems to have got lost in all this media mess.
Hello Paul,
We'll have to wait and see how the events unfold.
What has been made perfectly clear, however, is the vulgar way in which the press have gorged themselves on this tragedy. Many lives - of those suspected and their families - have been damaged by disgraceful trial by media.
They are clearly not guilty. If they were, why would they try and keep the story in the press for such a long period of time and keep the hunt going?
I don't think it's an anglophobic witch hunt, but I suspect laziness is part of the problem here. I also agree that it diverts the focus away from what happened to poor Madeleine and the press are partly to blame for that. I think that basically the McCann's are being punished, subconsiously or otherwise, for their stoicism and determination to find out what happened to their daughter
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