I, for one, will be grateful for a resolution to this tragic story.
If for no other reason than to spare us the sanctimony of a surprisingly large and voluble number of ABers.
I'm not sufficiently certain that I would have left my child/ren in the evenings as Kate and Gerry are supposed to have done........however, we have only the stories being drip-fed from an increasingly beleaguered Portugese police force via a salivating scoop-hungry international press from which to infer this......to pass judgement on their actions on the days leading up to and including 3rd May.
But, by God ! what a lesson hard learnt........!
Is it really the general assumption that they now deserve everything they are getting ? Are we so hardened that we can't find a little humanity to try and feel a little of what they are feeling ? Are we so jealous of their reasonably comfortable living standards that we reserve our sympathy for less high-acheivers ?
Have the 'grumps' lost sight of the fact that (hopefully) there is a little girl out there, albeit one who is scared to death, missing her Mummy, Daddy, brother and sisters, gandparents and her beloved cuddle cat.............
She is, or should be, the focus of our efforts and I suspect that Kate and Gerry are willing to sacrifice themselves on the altar of 'Bad Publicity' rather than have the story slip away to pages 4 and 5 of our newspapers and then becoming Madeline Who ?
I really don't think that the ills of society can be laid at their door and throwing 'other lost children' or the ubiquitous 'children needing operations' soundbites actually brings anything to this particular story.
Perhaps the monied benefactors are sufficiently sure of the McCanns innoncence, dismayed at the shabby treatment of them both by the Portuguese authorities and DO possess the milk of human kindness (so conspicuous by its absence from this type of posting) to offer all the assistance they can.