Cubed3 2002 - 2009 Wed, 22 May 2013 12:47:51 GMT-1 Latest 10 posts made in this topic. http://www.cubed3.com/ http://www.cubed3.com http://www.cubed3.com/images/button.gif 31 88 jb@cubed3.com (Jorge Ba-oh) en-us http://www.cubed3.com/topic/25217Sorry for the double post - consider it a bump, to emphasise the current status. <br/> <br/>So now a Portugese judge declares that there is insufficient evidence to allow the Portugese police the right to demand the McCanns return. The case against them appears to have been built on a house of cards. <br/> <br/>The sniffer dog evidence is deemed worthless, having as much as an 8 out 10 failure rate. The hair could have come any number of people. What do they have left - supposition, presumption, assumption - hardly a case to build on. <br/> <br/>I also noticed that the Government Cabinet head of Media Monitoring has quit his high paying job, to work for the McCanns for free and Richard Branson has donated something like 100,000 GBP to the fighting fund. Apparently, they are also in direct contact with Gordon Brown and the Foreign Secretary, David Milband. I doubt that they would take such a risk on a high profile case unless they were convinced of their innocence. <br/> <br/>I at least hope that the Portugese are spending their resources on following other leads or paths. It owuld be tragedy if they glued themselves to this one, flimsy possibility. <br/> <br/>becomes more intriguing by the day, but I still think that the betting money is on innocence of murder, but odds on favoutite that they made the worst parenting act imaginable. http://www.cubed3.com/topic/25217The DNA is not conclusive eveidence of anything. They would have had her DNA all over their items. Contamination of DNA is not unknown. <br/> <br/>The main thing I don't understand is the public's desire to blame someone - the parents. How can anyone just say they did it, when they just don't know. Yes, it is fine to have an inclination, but keep it rational. I was amongst the minority who believed Lindy Chamberlain was innocent. It set people against each other in Australia at the time. People were like rabid dogs, making up all sorts of shit to justify their beliefs. I see that the media is now questioning Mrs McCann's use of make-up, always looking good. It is the same thing. No matter what you do, people/media will use anything you do/say and read into it to make the story they want. <br/> <br/>The biggest point for me, as a parent, is they were bad and selfish parents (assuming they didn't do it). To leave their children alone like that is just bad. There is a problem to that though - it is extremely common. So many hypocrites out there will be villifying them and have done the same things themselves. I myself have been given a hard time because I won't attend Christmas functions (for work - that require a Motel stayover) and just leave my daughters alone in the room. This happened when they were 7 & 9. I won't do it now at 12 & 14. <br/> <br/>Seriously, it is common, but for others, they should say, "there but for the grace of god, go I". Just luck (assuming they didn't kill her). <br/> <br/>I am still sticking to my inclinination of innocence. I have yet to see anything to truly undermine it. Generally speaking, we must live by our western laws of innocent until proven guilty, and give them the benefit of the doubt - for the moment. http://www.cubed3.com/topic/25217The most suspicious thing is the fact that all of these DNA samples were found in the car, a while after she was "abducted". To make it worse, they were in the <i>boot</i> of the car which is the stereotypical place to store a dead body if you needed to get rid... <br/> <br/>:roller: http://www.cubed3.com/topic/25217 <br/> <br/>Well that explains it all. http://www.cubed3.com/topic/25217So you think they did it for the money maybe? or they thought of that after their daughter died...- I've heard they have made over 1/2 a million in donations - they bought a house in spain with the money... <br/> <br/>The donators must be gutted...that is if it was the parents. http://www.cubed3.com/topic/25217The more they follow up on this case the more confusing it gets..... http://www.cubed3.com/topic/25217Apparently with todays revelation that 20 out of 20 (strains/parts/whatever you call it?) of the DNA found in the boot of the hire car are a perfect match for Madeleines, and other eveidence, there is sufficient evidence to charge the parents. A judge is reading all the evidence to see if it can go to trial. <br/> <br/>It seems increasingly more like a case of manslaughter (accidental murder) now... http://www.cubed3.com/topic/25217[quote][b]Pok http://www.cubed3.com/topic/25217How long's it been now? Four months? She's gone, either dead or a sex slave. I really do feel for the parents (if they didn't kill her of course). Leaving their kids on their own while they went to a restaurant was a stupid, selfish thing but the punishment for it will be with them for the rest of their lives. I don't think social services (as some have suggested) should be involved. <br/> <br/>Random fact: I was in that chapel in Luz where the McCanns were always seen in the media last month. http://www.cubed3.com/topic/25217New evidence: She had a catholic bible open on a page where....david or something kills his son.