Maddie Mccann

[Luís]

As a Portuguese, I am interested to know how the British and other people around the world are watching this Maddie disappearance case and everything that's been happening, now with mom being "given" the "arguido" status.

[minus clover]

i have wondered all along whether or not the parents were involved. what kind of parent leaves their kids in a motel room while they go off somewhere else to have dinner?? doesnt matter that they say they could see the door to the room from where they were eating, i bet they couldnt see all the windows... and we only have their word that all kids were tucked in bed before they went off.

[metmum]

If it had happened in the UK they would have been at top of the list straight away. They always look at the parents/carers first. So I'm not surprised that she has been named as a suspect just surprised it took so long.

[minus clover]

If it had happened in the UK they would have been at top of the list straight away. They always look at the parents/carers first. So I'm not surprised that she has been named as a suspect just surprised it took so long.

maybe thats why they waited til they got to portugal...

[metmum]

i have wondered all along whether or not the parents were involved. what kind of parent leaves their kids in a motel room while they go off somewhere else to have dinner?? doesnt matter that they say they could see the door to the room from where they were eating, i bet they couldnt see all the windows... and we only have their word that all kids were tucked in bed before they went off.

Yeah a lot of people in the UK think the same thing as well. And apparently they couldn't see the door from where they were it was around the corner.

From what the news said this morning the reason they took them in for questioning again is because there was some concern that they had drugged them to keep them asleep, but I think that is only speculation at the moment.

[Bob Garage]

it's looked dodgy from the begining. the parents (especially the dad) seemed far too happy expecially considering his daughters gone missing.

even if they are not guilty of "doing the deed" social services in the uk need to investigate them. they went out for dinner and left the kids in a flat on their own. yes the resurant was 200 yards away and they claim they were checking them every half an hour but you should never leave three kids (all under 4) alone in a flat in a country you do not know (or even a country you do know), not even for a minute, no matter how far away you'll be.

while the girl going missing is a terrible thing, the parents should be shown no simpathy at all.

[Bob Garage]

my evening newspaper is saying traces of madeleines blood have been found in a car the parents hired 25 days after she dissapeared.

[metmum]

my evening newspaper is saying traces of madeleines blood have been found in a car the parents hired 25 days after she dissapeared.

Yeah I saw that on the news, doesn't look good.

Also I think the police in Portugal had said if they had found her they would have pressed charges on the parents for leaving them alone.

[Luís]

I've been reading a some English press about this case and it looks like folks there don't really like us, our press and our police.

[Snow]

It's not that we don't like the Portuguese, ok well I will clarify that, we aren't keen on the football team (although Bob Garage will disagree here but.....until the Welsh can get that far in a international tournament) and we don't like the policing methods used in this case, although I heard that they were on about changing the procedure just after Maddie went missing.

Personally I think that the parents should be charged with either Criminal Neglect she is found alive or Manslaughter if she isn't.