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Madeleine McCann

Discussion in 'TalkCeltic Pub' started by CrazyBhoy, Aug 12, 2007.

Discuss Madeleine McCann in the TalkCeltic Pub area at TalkCeltic.net.

  1. Sean Daleer Free Palestine Gold Member

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    I'll never understand why they didn't answer questions though. Maybe they didn't like the accusations I don't know.

    Also the PM at the time getting involved? Why Maddie and not the hundreds of other missing children.

    I think the preferential treatment has coloured a lot of people's opinions.
     
  2. jocksteinupper

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    They're very easily to dislike mate, it's true!! Not only did they leave their kids I'm sure fairly early on that they said they were just doing what plenty other people do every year. Well not in my world but maybe for the high and mighty and the tapas 7 or whatever they were called!! That grated with a lot of people early doors.
     
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    Been reading this thread today, some good posts, i'll need to watch the docs now.

    A lot of people reckon the bairns had been doped up by the parents, did the police not take forensic hair samples from the twins. Thought this would have been a given as doping shows in the hair like rings on a tree, or was there some reason they never done it.
     
  4. The Greenman King of kings

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    I strongly suspect that Gerry is a mason which would go a way to explaining the high level connections this pair seem to have. Kennedy's lawyer Edward Smethurst (who's also a director of the find Maddie fund) is a known senior Freemason, as is Gordon Brown who we know leaned on the Portuguese authorities to release details of the case they weren't yet comfortable with.
     
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  6. paulie walnuts Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    Gerry comes across as an arrogant * but he seems to be from a fairly ordinary Glasgow catholic background.
    Don’t know much about Freemasons but can’t imagine he would be their usual type.
     
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  7. The Greenman King of kings

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    Catholics are allowed to join, my granda was raised a Catholic and a member. That was in St Andrews right enough, can't imagine there being too many of them from a Catholic backround down here. It's more likely he'd have got into it down in England.
     
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  8. PaulM1888 Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    I would suggest that’s a fair assumption to make.
     
  9. Ciaran_67

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    Sometimes a conspiracy is a good story. Quite a lot of times, there is adequate evidence which corroborates a potential conspiracy.

    I cannot see one iota of reliable evidence that would suggest that the McCann’s had any involvement in her disappearance.

    I think people’s dislike of Kate and Gerry and the entertainment of a conspiracy has taken precedence on this occasion.
     
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    Haven't read that and watched the video's it's just confirmed for me that the McCann's were responsible,whether intentional or not, for the death of Madeleine or they know who was.
    One thing that astounds me is they go on another trip 3 weeks after the "disappearance" leaving the other 2 kids in the same town
     
  11. Luis1967 Gold Member Gold Member

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    This pops up quite regularly in garbage newspapers about new suspects etc. But seems for the first time in a long time there is actually something in this, all main outlets running with it.
     
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  12. paulie walnuts Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    A convicted * offender who was known to be in the area at the time? Can see why it’s taken them years to get round to this guy :39:
     
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  13. Jeannie960 Gold Member Gold Member

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    I think when they keep rattling things around they will eventually shake something loose. I suppose new things come to light and with the passage of time people can't keep secrets. If the facts that they are presenting are actually true then it's plausible that this guy might have had something to do with it. I think that they have to be coming to the end of this one way or another.
     
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  14. paulie walnuts Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    With the money, time and attention dedicated to this case, you might have thought that a dubious character like this might have come onto the radar sooner than 13 years later.
     
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  15. Twisty Rodgers out !!! Gold Member

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    Amazed folk still fall for this.
     
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  16. Sean Daleer Free Palestine Gold Member

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    As opposed to all major outlets keeping shtum for the last 13 years? :43:
     
  17. FATLAZYBHOY Born in the steamie Gold Member

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    aye, all seems a bit suspect to me as well.
     
  18. Jeannie960 Gold Member Gold Member

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    The world is a strange place but it's not unknown for cold cases to be solved. The story has more of a curiosity value if not only for the fact that most people believe that the couple did it themselves! Even if they were to prove beyond a doubt that they had nothing to do with it beyond pure and simple neglect ......it wouldn't suit the narrative of conspiracy theorists. I think I've read so many stories surrounding it that I would be amazed if this one turns out to be true!
     
  19. Luis1967 Gold Member Gold Member

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    True. But had about 10 BBC news breaking news notifications about this in last couple days. They don’t usually get involved with this anymore I didn’t think.
     
  20. Twisty Rodgers out !!! Gold Member

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    I believe the guy that was in charge of it all from the start. There are some conspiracy theories out there, abduction probably being the biggest one.