John

Lapsus!

Minor Matters

Eish, I hope not. Freud is dead.

B. Watch

“What a terrible thing to happen: come home and find your little girl’s bed empty. No trace of her whereabouts. Your life would change forever.”

Totally agree. And made all the more tragic by having left them alone simply to go out and get drunk.

Whilst I am sure service may have been included in the table bill that evening, I am not sure losing your first born was necessarily a part of the trade.

Tragic – but not without blame. And if it’s something that could have happened to any of us then more fool us.

Glad you cleared up the misconception as there seem to have been a number of scavengers on the net who were eager to believe that you heaping the two together at a semantic level was evidence that The Times were revealing a furtive verdict on the McCanns.

Adam Wilkinson

Good everything is clear now, leaving no misunderstandings. Some people may have thought that your title had something to do with Kate’s fingerprints on the apartment window showing she had opened it from the inside. No finger prints or glove marks from the ‘abductor’ who ‘snatched’ Madeleine and took her out through the window as her parents have explained. Only Kate’s, but apparently she does not remember having opened the window.

Minor Matters

I do find it interesting how the ‘Kate killed Maddie’ believers are mostly male. At the time, in our office most of the men believed she was guilty of killing her daughter, while the women didn’t.

Sam Hall

Sorry that the title in your article was interpreted as a suggestion that Madeleine McCann was killed by her parents. It is a terrible thought to cross anyone’s mind.

I understand that a lot of people are convinced Kate and Gerry are involved in Madeleine’s disappearance, and death, based on evidence like the sniffer dogs that detected cadaver odour in Kate’s clothes. Fortunately we have been given a perfectly innocent explanation. Six people dropped dead on GP Kate just before their holiday and she took with her to Portugal the clothes she was wearing then. That’s why the police dogs could smell dead body.

It’s unfortunate that Kate had to take her working clothes, certainly unwashed, but the McCanns were probably quite hard up with a mortgage to pay on their big house. Now with the Madeleine Fund as a company for several purposes including supporting the family, and mortgage payments, she would be able to afford a change of clothes. She always looks well dressed when she appears in public.

It’s a pitty about the dogs. I understand they have been used 200 times, always with infallible results, but when it came to the McCann case, they failed, for the first time!

Sarah

If the McCanns had been in the next room and suddenly found their daughter gone from her bed, my heart would have gone out to them straight away. Who could predict such a tragedy? But when you leave your children 50 yards away, unsupervised, in an UNLOCKED hotel room in a foreign country, well, you are practically begging for something to happen. I simply can not bring myself to feel sympathy for this couple. I never believed they were killers, but their haphazard attitude has more than likely lead to their daughter’s death. My heart goes out to Madeleine only. For them, I feel nothing.

Gail Fradd

It is truely sad how society tends to judge others, I thought that was left for God to do.
I have left my daughter sleeping in an apartment in Mauritius as an infant! Who gives anyone the right to remove a child from their home? When one is in holiday mood, you tend to be more relaxed and less guarded. I feel extremely sorry for both parents, you can see by their actions, just how much they love their children…shame on all of you for being so critical. I sincerely hope this never happens to you.