This is based on forensic evidence supplied from Britain that traces of the four year old's blood was found in a hire car which the McCanns hired 25 days after the child's disappearance.
All this is known from newspaper reports but what I am asking is how and why? Given the time scales involved the suggestion that the McCanns had something to do with the child's now assumed death seems on the face of it, incredible.
Here are two intelligent doctors, on holiday with their three children. They leave the kids in a room while they eat at an adjacent tapas bar. They did not eat alone but with three friends who, it seems all took turns to check on the children at half hourly intervals. So this is not a case of two nutty parents and unsubstantiated evidence. Unless these three friends are part of some inexplicable conspiracy and have lied all the way through, they checked on the kids regularly until Kate McCann checked and discovered the door open and Madeleine missing.
Now what could have happened if the friends have been telling the truth? Is it suggested that Kate McCann, in that brief visit back to her apartment, then killed her daughter while two twins slept peacefully next door, somehow hid the body, then cooly raised the alarm that the kid was missing. First off why would she do that?
The police, I note, are not suggesting murder but that Kate McCann accidentally killed the child and then covered it up. How did she do this in such a short time? Why, if you had just killed your child in an accident, would you return to a restaurant and say she was missing after hiding the body? If indeed the child had been killed accidentally, why would an intelligent young doctor, riddled with grief, not come clean about it? Why would you go to the lengths of hiding a body and then inventing a cover story of an abduction? None of this makes any sense.
There has been no suggestion that any of these kids have been on an 'at risk' register. No suggestion that the McCanns have been other than kind loving parents to all three of their children. No suggestion of an uncontrolled violent streak. So what is going on here?
If the blood in the hire car is Madeleine's then how did it get there 25 days after the child's disappearance. Is it being suggested that the McCanns found a convenient time, one month after the 'murder' and moved the body? If so with the media watching them 24/7 how, in a tiny goldfish bowl like Praia de Luz did they manage to do that?
If the blood in the car was Madeleine's, could it not have been picked up from a blanket or even an item of the parents clothing which had been in contact with the blood in the apartment? After all the apartment was not sealed off, the Portuguese police did not ensure a sterile crime scene and everyone was walking all over the apartment for months before any blood traces were spotted. Presumably all sorts of clothing could have been in contact with blood that had lain there for a month and not seen by anyone.
If Kate and Gerry McCann did not kill their four year old where did her blood come from? Well suppose the parents ARE telling the truth. Suppose someone who spotted an open door or window did get in and maybe either hit the child over the head or punched her to shut her up, then escaped with an unconscious child. Isn't that a possible scenario? Then the spots of blood on, say, a sofa could have been transferred to the McCanns clothing.
The trouble is, of course, thanks to the method of investigation we will not find out because the Portuguese police cannot discuss the case under Portuguese law. Now they may well be entirely competent. I am not going to fall for the British habit of sneering at foreign officialdom. But the method of investigation and the lack of contact with the media has led to a most unhappy situation for Kate and Gerry McCann and a sense of frustration for everyone who wants to see closure to the Madeleine McCann affair..and for justice clearly to be seen to be done.
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