The McCanns' Abuse of Power: Thought for the day: Only in Praia da Luz

Tuesday

Thought for the day: Only in Praia da Luz

What are the chances of this, I ask you?

Did the McCanns get up each morning and have a conference about what they were going to wear that day before discussing their plan of action for finding missing Madeleine?

Surely it wasn't simply a case of "oops, we did it again!"?

Okay, so in the great scheme of things (e.g. your child is missing and believed to be giving her tuppence worth to a swarthy paedophile and time was of the essence to ~~get tshirts printed, get good quality wristbands and an inflatable billboard on order, organise a trip to the Vatican and get a Fund set up~~ get out and physically look for her) this observation is not of great importance - but when a child is missing I wonder why they did find it so important to be dressed alike or, at the very least, colour co-ordinated?

I find it intriguing that they had to wear the same shade denim, the same length trousers, the same colour tshirts, or the same colour jogging outfits....

It's almost as if there were two sets of happy McCann twins after 'difficult to control' Maddie disappeared.

But this only seemed to happen in Praia da Luz.

As did this.

No sooner did they arrive back in the UK than all this tomfoolery stopped without further ado.

It makes me wonder what other fakery went on in Praia da Luz, doesn't it you?

One of the withheld statements by Dr Katherina Gaspar

I was seated between Dave and Gerry who I believe were both speaking about Madeleine. I don’t remember the conversation in its entirety, but it seemed they were discussing a possible scenario. I remember Dave telling Gerry something like “she”, referring to Madeleine, “would do this”.. When he mentioned “this”, Dave was sucking on one of his fingers, pushing it inside and outside his mouth, while with the other hand he made a circle around his nipple, in a circulatory movement over his clothes. This was done in a provocative manner and carried an explicit insinuation in relation to what he was saying and doing. I remember that I was shocked at this, and looked at Gerry, and also at Dave, to see their reactions. I looked around as if saying “did anyone else hear this, or was it just me”. There was a nervous silence registered in all the conversations and afterwards, everyone began talking again.

Maddie Case Files

Susan Healy

"Kate phoned me, errm… about an hour after Gerry and asked me to get in touch with, errm… Paul Seddon, who is the priest, Father Seddon, who married her, who baptised Madeleine, errm… and I didn't have his mobile phone so I rang a friend of Kate's and got… got him and he rang Kate right away and I think as soon as this happened, as soon as Kate realised what had happened, it was as if, errm.. she started to ask God right away to give her Madeleine. Errm… because Kate and Gerry were not the most devout family."