Kate McCann releasing a book...

[Laura2919]

I think with regards to the sex bit its just her going through all her emotions, the book starts off about her and how she met Gerry so its just about their life with and without Madeleine, I started reading the book Tuesday night...

 

[Reedy]

Did Kate walk back to the restaurant or run?? Surely you would be running as fast as your legs could carry you as well as holding your other two children??
I never really understood why she said "THEY'VE" taken her? but maybe its just the first thing that came out of her mouth & didnt really think about what she was saying just that she had to tell them??

 

[special_kala]

The thing 99% of people would say in that situation is "maddie is gone" "i cant find her"

its very odd

 

[buttonnose82]

I don't think the use of the word 'They've' is really that big of a deal ...... pretty certain if I found my child was missing I wouldn't stand their thinking .....'hmm I wonder what is the best grammar too use in this situation'

 

[Harveysmum369]

I don't think the use of the word 'They've' is really that big of a deal ...... pretty certain if I found my child was missing I wouldn't stand their thinking .....'hmm I wonder what is the best grammar too use in this situation'

It just seems an odd phrase.....seems odd that she had assumed someone had taken her and she hadn't just wandered off...

If they had been in this country they would have been charged with neglect..xx

 

[buttonnose82]

I don't think the use of the word 'They've' is really that big of a deal ...... pretty certain if I found my child was missing I wouldn't stand their thinking .....'hmm I wonder what is the best grammar too use in this situation'

It just seems an odd phrase.....seems odd that she had assumed someone had taken her and she hadn't just wandered off...

If they had been in this country they would have been charged with neglect..xx

I totally agree it is a odd phrase but I guess you sat the first thing that comes into your head ..... all I mean is I don't think you can really focus too much on that choice of phrase as in times of stress you sometimes say strange things

 

[Cloberella]

I don't think the use of the word 'They've' is really that big of a deal ...... pretty certain if I found my child was missing I wouldn't stand their thinking .....'hmm I wonder what is the best grammar too use in this situation'

It just seems an odd phrase.....seems odd that she had assumed someone had taken her and she hadn't just wandered off...

If they had been in this country they would have been charged with neglect..xx

I totally agree it is a odd phrase but I guess you sat the first thing that comes into your head ..... all I mean is I don't think you can really focus too much on that choice of phrase as in times of stress you sometimes say strange things

Yeah and 'they' is ambiguous in terms of whether the abductor would me male or female, so she's panicked, and just blurts out 'they' because she doesn't know if it's a man or woman.
If that makes any sense!

I don't really think anyone can definitely say 'I wouldn't say/do that if my child had just gone missing, because we wouldn't know would we? None of us have dealt with that.

 

[purpledahlia]

I can honestly say, If i were to go into LO's room and she wasnt there, Id be screaming her name saying where are you, shes gone, help, etc. Not 'they've' taken her, whos taken her? how do you know shes been taken straight away? she could have wandered off, i honestly wouldnt say 'theyve taken her' if i went into her room and she wasnt there... unless theres somthing like blackmail, or they saw and heard people express interest in the child, that maybe freaked them out, then they'd have reason to say 'theyve taken her'.... honestly, its odd. IMO

 

[angelmummy]

If i went in my boys room and either of them were not there i would be screaming their name in the hope they were hiding or something and would answer me. i would not automatically assume anyone had taken either of them. i would prob think they had got out the door themselves or climbed out. it does seem a bit of a weird phrase. makes me think even more that they knew exactly what had happened to her and that they had planned their story and that is why she said they have taken her as they had planned to use abduction as a story to cover their involvement.

 

[sarah0108]

Sorry if it's already been linked or talked about but have you all watched the 'truth of the lie' videos?

 

[sarah0108]

Just want to say how blooming clever those cadaver dogs are!

 

[fairydreams]

My dd ran off a few years ago, it was xmas and she'd spotted the huge xmas tree! My heart was in my mouth for all of 2whole minutes, thought the mccanns probably felt the same but then saw her say she was 'over the guilt'......., i'd only let dd out her pram for a second whilst i cleaned sausage roll remains out of it, i felt guilty for ages about letting go of her for a few seconds and we were in a locked building!! I have quite a few opinions on this but not enough text space off my phone! Lol

 

[Quackquack99]

If I found my child not in their bed, I can't honestly say what my immediate reaction would be. I don't know if I would think that she had been abducted. I doubt that I would. But I'd assumed that most people would have said 'maddie's gone' or 'maddie's not in the apartment'. 'They've taken her' is just ambiguous.

 

[Tasha]

I dont think we can say what we would do, we might think that we would know but we dont. I read so many times when Maria on Corrie lost her baby that it wasnt like real life because people would scream and she didnt, I read I would scream, I would do this, I would do that, but when I found out my Honey had grown her wings I didnt do that, I said no, and then was silent, tears rolling down my face, now with Riley Rae I did scream no not again, and I sobbed and I was very loud. Same person, same situation twice, two different reactions. My point being, no matter how sure you are that you would say or do x, y or z, you dont actually know for sure unless it has happened to you, and even if it has happened to you, you cant be sure that given the same situation again your reaction would be the same

 

[fairydreams]

Yeh i don't know what my reaction would be neither, when dd went missing for them 2mins i was screaming her name at the top of my lungs. I honestly (and sincerely!) hope that she's still alive and hopefully being looked after, i don't have any evidence to support that i know, it's just my personal opinion. Also yes i agree that those poor kiddies should never have been left alone in the first place.

 

[Cloberella]

I dont think we can say what we would do, we might think that we would know but we dont. I read so many times when Maria on Corrie lost her baby that it wasnt like real life because people would scream and she didnt, I read I would scream, I would do this, I would do that, but when I found out my Honey had grown her wings I didnt do that, I said no, and then was silent, tears rolling down my face, now with Riley Rae I did scream no not again, and I sobbed and I was very loud. Same person, same situation twice, two different reactions. My point being, no matter how sure you are that you would say or do x, y or z, you dont actually know for sure unless it has happened to you, and even if it has happened to you, you cant be sure that given the same situation again your reaction would be the same

Exactly. We can imagine how we'd act in situations of grief and of stress, but we can't know.

 

[annawrigley]

Woah finally caught up with this. Hopefully no nightmares for me tonight Just wanted to share a few things

Kate and Gerry McCann: The books found in their apartment
^Not watched this so dunno if its interesting/relevant

McCann's vs Chavs

Why Mummy?

Analysis of McCann media interviews

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Also the attached pic says it all really... Either he's a very itchy guy or a barefaced liar

 

[jenkins]

I posted early on in this thread about how I found their behaviour strange - particularly the jogging on the beach not very long after she went 'missing' and have since been reading with interest.

thankyou so much for all the info and links posted to all of you who have, unfoetunately for me i've been waiting to have broardband installed for over a week so cant really watch stuff properly in my phone. Its getting fitted tomorrow - literally cant wait lol!

Anyway morbid curiosity got the better of me and I have bought the book and started it but i'm finding it really hardgoing because of what i've read, is anyone finding this?

its strangely compelling but then its annoying me as i'm pretty certain she's lying.

I know that this has been talked about loads but can someone please sort of summarise or clarify for me why they have never been arrested etc? Is it just literally lack of evidence?

the reason I ask is because i've been talking to dh about it and at first he thought I was just reading about conspiracies etc until I showed him some links from here but we just dont get how nothing has happened to them?

The thing is, even if its true, if you start talking about freemasons etc it just starts to sound farfetched and like you have bought it to conspiracies.

That poor girl has been on my mind for days

 

[KrisKitten]

I will say that I think the whole thing about 'conspiracy theories' being nonsense is nonsense itself. All it is is a theory about a conspiracy, so America thinking the Taliban were behind 9/11 was a conspiracy theory, if people had suspected Fred and Rose west before they were charged it would have been a conspiracy theory etc etc.
Sometimes people do conspire to do bad things, and sometimes people suss them out before it's proven. Something being a conspiracy theory doesn't automatically make it nonsense xx

 

[annawrigley]

Ok I didn't have nightmares but it took me a good few mins to pluck up the courage to look under my bed last night in case someone was hiding there I'm such a child