Kate And Gerry

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There's a picture of the girl's official mother and they look so much alike that it's almost certainly nonsense. But apparently the McCanns are willing to do a DNA test.

[Lafaucheuse 4,046]

26 minutes ago, Slackhurst Broadcasting said:

There's a picture of the girl's official mother and they look so much alike that it's almost certainly nonsense. But apparently the McCanns are willing to do a DNA test.

Wasn’t she adopted by her parents ? I Don’t think she knows her biological parents. 
 

anyway, here is her insta account. She does look like Maddie but I really doubt this is her. 

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

6 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said:

Wasn’t she adopted by her parents ? I Don’t think she knows her biological parents. 
 

anyway, here is her insta account. She does look like Maddie but I really doubt this is her. 

 

 

According to what I read she was adopted, but - like I said earlier - she's 22. Grew up in a western country with good record keeping so her adoption papers and likely her school record will be intact somewhere, meaning it's highly unlikely they've got her age wrong and therefore she isn't Maddie.

[Comped 528]

7 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

 

 

According to what I read she was adopted, but - like I said earlier - she's 22. Grew up in a western country with good record keeping so her adoption papers and likely her school record will be intact somewhere, meaning it's highly unlikely they've got her age wrong and therefore she isn't Maddie.

Arguably, the 2% chance it is though, might be worth it for some.

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

1 hour ago, Comped said:

Arguably, the 2% chance it is though, might be worth it for some.

 

 

Hell yeah, I got the second last copy of The Star on Sunday in Tesco's and there were loads of copies of The Mail left.

[Lafaucheuse 4,046]

While making DNA test, the polish girl who thought she was Maddie discovered she has leukemia……

[Comped 528]

30 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said:

While making DNA test, the polish girl who thought she was Maddie discovered she has leukemia……

Well at least she can get treatment now, so that's nice I guess?

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

3 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said:

While making DNA test, the polish girl who thought she was Maddie discovered she has leukemia……

 

 

Aye well, since she isn't Maddie that's an instant fast-track to more media attention. 

 

S'cuse the cynicism!

[Lafaucheuse 4,046]

well the DNA results just came in and… THE POLISH GIRL IS MADDIE MCCAN !! 

 

Joking of course, they're negative, which means she's not Maddie. She's the daughter of her biological parents. 

[Sinbabad 1,120]

Today Madeleine McCann is (or more likely would have been) 20

I hope we will finally know the truth 

[Grim Up North 3,725]

Searching a reservoir

 

Imagine if they actually found her remains.

[Comped 528]

4 hours ago, Grim Up North said:

Searching a reservoir

 

Imagine if they actually found her remains.

Finally giving the story closure would probably depress a lot of tabloid writers on both sides of the pond...

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

The one safe prediction in the current situation is that none of the high profile trolls who heaped hate on Kate and Gerry will come forward, cop for being wrong and issue a sincere apology for the hurt caused. 

 

Beyond that, I'd say all bets are off. Divers have searched that reservoir before and reported it so full of silt they have to feel their way around.

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

Case against the prime suspect is now - ermmm - a bit suspect since the main witness who dobbed him in it is starting to wobble, or summat. If yer that bother you could always buy The Sun: 

[TQR 14,391]

2 hours ago, maryportfuncity said:

If yer that bother you could always buy The Sun: 

 

Never advertise the fucking S*n ever again.

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

1 hour ago, TQR said:

 

Never advertise the fucking S*n ever again.

 

Not sure I was "advertising" - find me an advert that uses the slogan "if yer that bothered..."  - apologies in advance for any time I post on the aliens thread with a recent revelation blazed across the front page of that estimable repository of high-end news, The Daily Star. 

 

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Years ago I wrote for a certain line of magazines and would sometimes do articles from readers' letters or conversations over the phone. At the start the editor/publisher told me that if what people said or wrote wasn't exciting enough it was fine to just make it all up instead. He said he'd learned this when he was a reporter with the Daily Express.

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

1 hour ago, Slackhurst Broadcasting said:

Years ago I wrote for a certain line of magazines and would sometimes do articles from readers' letters or conversations over the phone. At the start the editor/publisher told me that if what people said or wrote wasn't exciting enough it was fine to just make it all up instead. He said he'd learned this when he was a reporter with the Daily Express.

 

 

Mark Twain worked in a notoriously drunken newsroom, so none of this is exactly new. Indeed, there's a whole topic area better suited to the UFOs... thread about the US airship wave of sightings at the end of the nineteenth century that owed a lot to the newly installed telegraph lines and people making up lurid shit about mad inventors and cutting edge machines at large in rural America. Bollocks that was widely read, but glorious bollocks. 

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

Tonight's Panorama has a summary of the stuff to date in the Maddie case, news this morning on radio trailing the fact the Portuguese police apologised to the McCanns for, basically, being shite cops and heading off in the wrong investigative direction. In other news, Christian Brueckner - main suspect now - is clearly summat of a party animal where despicable sex crimes are concerned, there's a brief round up of the current tonnage of charges coming his way in the link:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67229219

[The Old Crem 3,588]

Chief suspect Christian Brueckner allegedly confessed to cell mate he stole a girl in Portugal. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/30657247/madeleine-mccann-brueckner-admitted-snatched-girl/

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Christian Brueckner deemed innocent - at least in the Maddie case:

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/madeleine-mccann-christian-b-in-vergewaltigungsprozess-freigesprochen-a-be87ea9a-a231-4f82-8551-52b03a023894

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

19 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

Christian Brueckner deemed innocent - at least in the Maddie case:

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/madeleine-mccann-christian-b-in-vergewaltigungsprozess-freigesprochen-a-be87ea9a-a231-4f82-8551-52b03a023894

 

 

To be clear, "the Maddie case" was no part of this trial. Basically, he's been acquitted because whilst a break-in at his place in Portugal led to the thieves and later the cops finding video evidence of his raping, it's proven impossible to identify victims and produce evidence linking said victims to our man. In one case there's even a victim recalling a rape but the whole thing is so long ago it's not possible to link the video in Brueckner's den of depravity to her case. This is hardly a ringing character endorsement of a misunderstood genius, or owt!

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp95m0pel7vo

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41 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

 

 

To be clear, "the Maddie case" was no part of this trial. Basically, he's been acquitted because whilst a break-in at his place in Portugal led to the thieves and later the cops finding video evidence of his raping, it's proven impossible to identify victims and produce evidence linking said victims to our man. In one case there's even a victim recalling a rape but the whole thing is so long ago it's not possible to link the video in Brueckner's den of depravity to her case. This is hardly a ringing character endorsement of a misunderstood genius, or owt!

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp95m0pel7vo

It will through make it harder to prosecute him for any involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance and also do nothing to the stop the conspiracy theory that he has been chosen, as a clearly evil man, to be the designated person to end the story and cover up others involvements. 

[Ulitzer95 12,596]

2 hours ago, maryportfuncity said:

 

 

To be clear, "the Maddie case" was no part of this trial. Basically, he's been acquitted because whilst a break-in at his place in Portugal led to the thieves and later the cops finding video evidence of his raping, it's proven impossible to identify victims and produce evidence linking said victims to our man. In one case there's even a victim recalling a rape but the whole thing is so long ago it's not possible to link the video in Brueckner's den of depravity to her case. This is hardly a ringing character endorsement of a misunderstood genius, or owt!

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp95m0pel7vo

I think you're looking into it too much.

Often when the police can't find the culprit in a big case they try and nail someone for it, regardless of whether they actually did it or not.

I've often had my doubts about this Christian B character because all of the evidence is merely circumstantial, with the exception of his cellmate's testimony. Though the testimonies of other jailbairds can often be dismissed as evidence based on the fact that a) prisoners say these things about one another in order to get time shaved off their own sentences b) prisoners often lie/exaggerate their own crimes and link themselves to unsolved cases in order to give themselves more "street cred" in the can amongst offenders of similar crimes.

Furthermore, the sketch of the man seen carrying the child at the time looked nothing like Christian B. A lot of ppl big unsolved crimes but I can't see how this one will ever be solved at this stage.

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

7 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

I think you're looking into it too much.

Often when the police can't find the culprit in a big case they try and nail someone for it, regardless of whether they actually did it or not.

I've often had my doubts about this Christian B character because all of the evidence is merely circumstantial, with the exception of his cellmate's testimony. Though the testimonies of other jailbairds can often be dismissed as evidence based on the fact that a) prisoners say these things about one another in order to get time shaved off their own sentences b) prisoners often lie/exaggerate their own crimes and link themselves to unsolved cases in order to give themselves more "street cred" in the can amongst offenders of similar crimes.

Furthermore, the sketch of the man seen carrying the child at the time looked nothing like Christian B. A lot of ppl big unsolved crimes but I can't see how this one will ever be solved at this stage.

 

 

Yeah, but...

 

Thieves breaking into his place found evidence he was a rapist, whether or not he had anything to do with Maddie's disappearance, he's dodged conviction here because they're unable to identify his victims.acquittal means they can't hit a standard of legal proof, it doesn't mean he's blameless for sex crimes. This case wasn't about trying to frame someone for a big crime, it was to see whether the clear evidence of his criminality could be linked to specific victims, which it couldn't.