Can The Mccanns Take Any More?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4180046/Kate-Gerry-McCann-fury-libel-battle-defeat.html

One has to empathise with them, the thought of a long missing daughter and now this, what can only be guessed an enormous legal bill to face?

Should they appeal?

[jackthehat]

Yes, they were. You have already mentioned that. I have not disagreed with it.

FACT.

[murraymints]

nothing self congratulerly in my responses ..leave 3 kids 3 years and under alone ?? at any time ?

[NoMercy]

Minty, you are not really contributing to this thread or making a reasoned argument..

You are merely stating the obvious...ad nauseum...

[murraymints]

so why argue the facts as they are ..no escaping..3 kids 3 years of age and under were left alone ina a flat unlocked in a foreign land to boot ! RIGHT OR WRONG..PURE AND SIMPLE..wrong !

[jackthehat]

Ho-Hum.....
Who is arguing the facts, Minty?

[237SJ]

Why do women always have to have a good argument? For goodness sake Girlies, give it a rest! Just joking (honest)

[NoMercy]

Minty, you are just repeating yourself.

No one is disputing that they were WRONG to leave their children alone...!!

They just don't deserve this chap.

[murraymints]

they deserve ALL they get..nuff said !

[Arksided]

I only hope the youngster is alive and doing well and is better off than having those nobhead parents, who I'm not convinced are totally innocent.

[jackthehat]

///they deserve ALL they get..nuff said !///

I couldn't bring myself to say that about any grieving parents and find myself surprised that you can say it with so much venom and yet believe yourself to occupy some sort of moral high-ground.

[-Talbot-]

Arksided
I only hope the youngster is alive and doing well and is better off than having those nobhead parents, who I'm not convinced are totally innocent.



If she is with a couple who could take in a child not knowing or worse knowing where the child came from (a abduction) then she is with guardians who are in fact worse ... much worse the the McCanns.

[murraymints]

no venom pure fact ! no moral high gound whatsoever pure observation !

[jackthehat]

You say "Potato....."

[murraymints]

and so do I ! give it a rest ..I say what lots think .the McCanns have a lot to answer for ! amen

[Arksided]

talbot, I'm not disputing that... you even quoted what I posted.

I only hope the youngster is alive and doing well

[-Talbot-]

I can't make any sense of both your recent answrs, Arksided.


If she is alive and well then she must have been abducted. Now as much as I despise the McCanns for what I consider serious neglect, I don't think that the child would be better of without them.

[Baldric]

Ark, I agree with this bit of your post

//those nobhead parents, who I'm not convinced are totally innocent//

[Garaman]

With regard to whether they should appeal or not, I am confused as to what is being said. Are the courts saying that the writer has the freedom to write what he wants, meaning effectively that there is no crime of defamation in Portugal? Or are they saying that the case hasn't been proven so he is allowed to put his theories in print?

[ummmm]

Some peoples attitudes to this case absolutely stink.

[Dazzleflash]

Taking all emotion out of this discussion the fact is , as murraymints states, three children under five were left unattended. Having spent many happy foriegn holidays with young children I cannot understand why they were not present with their families. children are welcomed into restaurants in portugal and you often see whole families dining late with young kids. The children were left for the convenience of the families involved. What would be the point of appeal? The Libel Laws in Portugal have not been contravened .Personally I have no compassion for either parent. There is something just 'not quite right' and the mother looks haunted, as if she 'knows'. They should now let it drop,the legal stuff anyway. Have they ever just gone away to grieve?