Saturday, 8 September 2007

Suspected but not Charged

You have to remember that Madeleine Mcann's parents are only being made suspects so that the police can follow a particular line of questioning. Nobody has been charged yet and they are not the first suspects in this case. Reading between the lines one might conclude that the police have some forensic evidence which has made them suspicious enough to question the Mcann's but not so much as to actually charge them.

I imagine this is why the police are offering the mother a deal whereby if she confesses it was an accident she might only spend two years in prison. This is because they don't have enough conclusive evidence and so they need a confession to secure a conviction.

You can understand why the police do this as they have a first responsibility to Madaleine and not her parents. But if the parents are innocent, then this must be living hell on top of the hell of loosing their daughter.

The Lab working on the blood spots has been doing so for a month now and so far they have only released preliminary results. It's not like on TV where a few blood spots would have been enough for the CSI team to have wrapped the case up in a few days....

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mr and Mrs McScam should be charged with neglecting their 3 babies, leaving them alone in an unlocked apartment, the door of which faced a busy road and out of sight of the tapas bar where the parents dined and left their children alone for many hours. This was the routine, which occurred every evening OF THEIR HOLIDAY prior to Madeleine’s disappearance. Babies and toddlers are curious and inquisitive and would have woken many times to explore and to search for their missing parents.

Ian Bird-Radolovic said...

That's a fair comment. I have two small children of my own and I would never dream of leaving them alone anywhere while I go off to a restaurant.

åsiktsmaskinen said...

I would never dream of leaving my daughter alone in a hotel room, while I´m having dinner downstairs or nearby. And I am obsolutely sure that Mr och Mrs McCann have regret that fact at least a thousand times. "If I only could turn my clock back"... POOR PEOPLE - what a nightmare.
Jane, single mum.