Kate McCann
You know, as opposed to actual, real, not-made-up stories for public consumption that have absolutely no basis in reality, but are meant to save your tourist trade…that sort of Not Concrete Evidence. Notice though what the BBC headline is, while the real news is buried at the end of the story–that of the Portuguese press reporting the growing belief that there’s no concrete evidence against the couple at all.
McCann dismisses overdose claim
The father of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann has dismissed a French press report that his daughter died from an overdose of sleeping pills.
Gerry McCann said the accusation by France Soir newspaper was “ludicrous”…Portuguese press have also reported that detectives may not have any “concrete” evidence to charge the couple as DNA traces of Madeleine in the holiday apartment and a rental car did not prove anything conclusive.
This is London, from the Evening Standard, actually runs with the actual news headline. They note it’s the police who have admitted not having ‘concrete evidence’ implicating the McCanns. This article also provides a general overview of where things stand now, which is in the Land of the Increasingly Absurd.
Portuguese police ‘don’t have enough evidence to charge Madeleine’s parents’
Portuguese police do not have enough evidence yet to charge Kate and Gerry McCann over the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine.
Senior sources admitted there was “nothing concrete” to bring a prosecution.
A source at the Policia Judiciara said today: “There are lots of indications but without more elements it is impossible to determine what has happened in the almost four hours vital to the case from 6pm [on 3 May, when Madeleine vanished].
They must be working closely with the Boulder Colorado police.
At the risk of getting royally slammed here, I have a question. How does anyone KNOW without doubt that the McCanns didn’t do this?
I understand “innocent until proven guilty”, but I’m seeing stuff that goes even beyond that and into the “How dare you even THINK that the McCanns had anything to do with their daughter’s death!!!!! You must be incompetent!”
Have we never heard of a case where a child either dies or mysteriously disappears and one or both parents vehemently deny any involvement, but then we come to find later that they did indeed kill their own child?
I’m not saying that she did this. I don’t know if she did or not. I certainly hope she didn’t (and while I’m at it, I’m fervently hoping that the child is alive and well somewhere). As far as I know, none of us is in a position to know whether she did or not. If there’s some personal connection to the McCanns here that I’m not aware of, then it’s a different story.
And if the story is true that the parents medicated the children and left them alone (in a foreign country, no less), so that they could go to dinner alone—well, we aren’t really talking about stellar parenting. We’re talking at least borderline negligence considering the ages of the children. I haven’t seen this version of the story refuted, but if it has been, I’ll gladly retract this part.
I thought the big lesson from the Duke case was “don’t jump to conclusions before all the facts are looked at”. Either that wasn’t the lesson or we didn’t learn it.