[Closed] Another £154k for Maddie

Gary_M - Member
Heartless or are we pragmatic ?
Guess you wouldn't be so pragmatic if it was your child?

You are quite correct, i do not have children.

However take a peak at the link I posted and maybe all the other Parents in those situations would concur with me, I don't know obvz and I'm not about to go ask one either.

Seems far more likely to me that she just wandered out alone fell down a hole in one the many nearby building site and got covered up.

Or fell in the unfenced swimming pool and drowned...........

I'm pretty sure that someone would have noticed by now if she was in there!

Gary_M - Member

The parents made a massive mistake, they've paid for it dearly. If it was my child I would hope the police would continue to throw millions of pounds in finding him.

You'd certainly hope, but would you expect? Bearing in mind here that this extra funding that's just been announced, is by itself more than is spent on the average missing child.

I don't like the armchair detectoring but when you get away from that for a minute, it's still madness- regardless of whether The McCanns Dun It, We All Know They Dun It or not, this is money that would have helped other people.

I don't like the armchair detectoring but when you get away from that for a minute, it's still madness- regardless of whether The McCanns Dun It, We All Know They Dun It or not, this is money that would have helped other people.

I'd agree, but if it was my child......

I just don't get what they're going to spend the money on?

Monday morning in the office:
"What are going to do today?"
"Dunno, we've already checked everything eleventy billion times"
"Right then... what did you do at the weekend?"

Gary_M - Member

I'd agree, but if it was my child......

If it was my child that was missing and wasn't getting a fraction of the attention or resource......

dooosuk - Member
I just don't get what they're going to spend the money on?

Yes, we are all aware that the actions of a Parent would be both intensive and non exhaustive...

I have to say this:

I would not want to live a life the McCanns have lived since the incident. My little life doesn't compare one iota to the mixed and unpredictable finger pointing they have endured.
Steadfast they have been, committed certainly, unequivocally family people. Lets not forget they have other children who for the majority of their own lives have endured both accusations and recrimination for the Parents actions/lack of action/attitude/social status or whatever speculative finger pointing has been targeted at them. The McCanns have been tried by the Media, Justice and gossip mongers alike. To get up each day and face yet more of the same is for me incomprehensible, the mental torture for them and their immediate family, their friends and colleagues is very hard to understand for a simple Bouy like me.

I wish them well, certainly I do. For this is a situation that will follow them to the end of their lives here, then repercussions spread across their family network for many many years to come.

Awful situation.

I suspect a dingo did it. It wouldn't be the first time.

I just don't get what they're going to spend the money on?

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I just don't get what they're going to spend the money on?

Exactly, the Portuguese police closed the case pending new leads years ago.

Perhaps they’ll be able to pay the 4 detectives they’ve got on it full time to work with Netflix on the documentary they’re making about it.

Does it really cost that much money for Leicestershire Police to drive to Rowsley and arrest the couple for abandonment and neglect and then take it from their?

Considering the sensitivity of the situation it’s hardly a good thing to do posting up where they live is it..

Just sayin.

Time enough to edit that one..

Does it really cost that much money for Leicestershire Police to drive to Rowsley and arrest the couple for abandonment and neglect and then take it from their?

Their what?

Obviously if you were Mrs McCann you'd not want to give up ever. Fair enough, I'd expect that she might want to do that.

However if you aren't, then there is nothing heartless, cold or callous to say leave it as an unsolved case and if anything else turns up then follow that up.

In the meantime put that money were it is more likely to get a result, keeping any eye on young girls in care or wrapping wheelie bins in bubble wrap.

I would not want to live a life the McCanns have lived since the incident. My little life doesn't compare one iota to the mixed and unpredictable finger pointing they have endured.
Steadfast they have been, committed certainly, unequivocally family people. Lets not forget they have other children who for the majority of their own lives have endured both accusations and recrimination for the Parents actions/lack of action/attitude/social status or whatever speculative finger pointing has been targeted at them. The McCanns have been tried by the Media, Justice and gossip mongers alike. To get up each day and face yet more of the same is for me incomprehensible, the mental torture for them and their immediate family, their friends and colleagues is very hard to understand for a simple Bouy like me.

I wish them well, certainly I do. For this is a situation that will follow them to the end of their lives here, then repercussions spread across their family network for many many years to come.

Awful situation.

Plus this

bikebouy - Member

Gary_M - Member
Guess you wouldn't be so pragmatic if it was your child?

You are quite correct, i do not have children.

Is there any reason, beyond the actually very funny suntan lotion and sunglasses quips, for a police force to continue requesting money for this case? Does having a high-profile case still open guarantee them some kind of special funding or something?

Considering the sensitivity of the situation it’s hardly a good thing to do posting up where they live is it..

Just sayin.

Time enough to edit that one..

They don't live in Rowsley.

The village they do live in is plastered all over most news articles in leicestershire news publications, it's not hard to find. Also I think the big oak tree outside the fish and chip shop is still covered in yellow ribbons (possibly, been a while since i last went past).

The whole situation is tragic. They made a very big mistake, one that will haunt them for the rest of their lives. And the media have used them to sell copy. Villefying them further is not going to change that.

None of us really know if the case is worth another £154K, but they solved the Ben Needham disappearance a long time after the event. It would be interesting to know what other open cases of missing persons cost?

but they solved the Ben Needham disappearance a long time after the event.

did they?

did they?

I reckon so.

Yes the Ben Needham case has been solved and the amount of money spent on it was no where near £11m.

In fact the publicity and the way the parents dealt with it couldn't be more different from the McCann's.

Yes the Ben Needham case has been solved 

Not 100%, a second hand death bed confession an a Dinky car aren't real proof, they just create a belief.

Not 100%, a second hand death bed confession an a Dinky car aren't real proof, they just create a belief.

I don't think anyone confessed, although the press suggested they did. However a shoe and a car at a nearby point where a construction vehicle was working on the day is pretty good evidence AFAIC. Pretty hard to explain what else they were doing there if the poor lad hadn't been mashed by Caterpillar tracks.

It isn't unknown for people kidnapped as children to survive and escape many years later. While not common, these cases must give a glimmer of hope to any parents of missing children. Who wouldn't keep looking?

Of course if it was your child you would want endless amounts of money spent on finding them. However, the police don't have endless amounts of money so spending more on one case means there is less for all the others.

The last thing you would do is ask the parents if you want a clinical, objective and in perspective answer.

The last thing you would do is ask [s]the parents[/s] STW if you want a clinical, objective and in perspective answer.

Leaving children alone -Hmmm. Today we left our four year old at home for about a 10 min window between me getting home from work, and the wife leaving to pick up my oldest (a one off). He was awake, at home (cut-de-sac), watching TV, and informed that Dad would be back 10 mins- glued to the TV as I got in! I reckon leaving sleeping kids alone is pretty risky as if they wake up they are confused and anything could happen, leaving non-sleeping kids for a few minutes carries less risk I reckon.

Really? What if he choked on a bit of Lego while you were out and you came home to his lifeless body?
I wouldn't leave my 4 year old home alone for any period of time, even if his very sensible 6 y/o brother was there with him.

Really? What if he choked on a bit of Lego while you were out and you came home to his lifeless body?
I wouldn't leave my 4 year old home alone for any period of time, even if his very sensible 6 y/o brother was there with him.

Couldn't this happen if you were at the bottom of the garden and he was in his bedroom

disclaimer - i dont have kids.

Couldn't this happen if you were at the bottom of the garden and he was in his bedroom

I wouldn’t do that with a four year old either.

fair enough..

As I said I dont have kids but I'm sure when I was 4 I was left alone for 10 min at a time in my bedroom whilst the folks were in garden or downstairs.

I'll be having words with my mum when I next see her!

I was too I’m sure.
No idea why I don’t feel comfortable doing the same, but for whatever reason, I don’t.

Personally I wouldn't leave a 4 year old alone at home as theres far too many variables that can occur. Open the door and wander out/answer to strangers, go into the kitchen and muck about with kettle/oven/hob, its your kid and they should never be left by themsleves

Each to there own but its shit parenting imo

I avoided most of the news about this case, just read the book written by the Portuguese police officer though and it's very interesting.

http://truthofthelie.com/the-book/

Have a read, I don't think the truth will ever come out.

Social Services^^^

Each to there own...

fair enough, very reasonable of you.

....but its shit parenting imo

Ah. Ok. 🙄

My memories of being less than 5 are pretty sketchy but I have an old scar on my eyebrow from being about three, lifting the coal bunker lid, popping my head in to take a look and, forgetting I was holding said lid, dropping it on my heed. Safe to be left for 30 minutes at three? Not I.

Each to their own but I won't let my three year old out of my sight. Way too unpredictable and energetic for that. If I do venture in to a different room I'll talk to him, but I wouldn't leave the house. I suppose some of it depends on your kids though. I have friends who's kids will sit still and play for ages. Not mine, he's like a demented border collie.

The days of my childhood and irresponsible parenting:

In car alone with glass of pop and packet of crisps while parents in pub - no access for kids then

All day bike rides without helmets, spare tubes, mobile phones

Air gun battles in local quarries

Canoeing alone across Windermere with leaking canoe

Solo rock climbing. Troll climbing belts not harness when roped.

Solo hill walks

Sleeping in Snow caves in Lakes at new year without adults

Batting without helmets and spiked (i.e. Useless) batting gloves gloves

Being left alone with friends naughty sister

Ahhh.....

cb - Member
What's £11M - perhaps a couple of cruise missiles?

I had no idea the Police used those !

Wow all at aged 3 / 4 teamhurtmore

Anyway the human warmth from this thread will be its own reward

She's dead. Move on...

She's dead. Move on...

Wow. So there is some new information.
Which part of the investigation are you involved in ?