Maddy Mccann...breaking News

[mikey4444]

Just heard on the Today program, that there is breaking news about Maddy.
Apparently an area of scrub land has been cordoned off. Nothing on the BBC News website yet.

[emeritus]

The Met said a month ago Mikey that they were waiting for permission to excavate a number of sites, Probably that is now commencing.

http://news.sky.com/story/1257297/madeleine-mccann-search-three-main-dig-sites

[mikey4444]

Thanks emeritus..there is still nothing on the BBC website, which is always my first port of call in the morning...well, after John Humphrys of course !

[Jomlett]

BBC News - Madeleine McCann: Police in Portugal search scrubland... http://bbc.in/1kocwEK

[Jomlett]

http://news.sky.com/story/1273546/madeleine-police-set-to-dig-as-area-sealed-off

[mikey4444]

I have always felt a kind of connection to this case. I arrived in Rome on holiday, the day the Mccanns arrived to see the Pope. I remember that all the TVs in the bars and restaurants were reporting the case and everybody seemed to be talking about it. I hope that this is finally put to bed in the next few days or weeks...one can only imagine what the parents must have gone through these last 7 years.

[pixie373]

Complete nightmare for them. They need some answers- although this doesn't sound good.

[grumpy01]

Although their apartment should not have been entered by whoever,the fact remains the McCann's left their children unguarded in a foreign country.Whilst I feel very sorry that little Maddie's life has probably been cut very short I have very little sympathy for the parents.

[jno]

always good to hear from a perfect parent...

[ummmm]

Yeah....it drives me mad how opinionated and judgemental people are.

[dunnitall]

Surely everyone is entitled to their opinion whether we agree with it or not?

[ummmm]

Of course. But this thread isn't about the rights and wrongs of what the parents did. That has been debated for the last 7 years..

[pixie373]

They are, dunnitall, and others are entitled to disagree.

[grumpy01]

OK then jmo and ummmm,would either of you left infant twins and a small daughter in a room unattended whilst you went out to dinner with friends? I don't think so.

[Baldric]

Morning Grumpy, that's been 'chewed over' on here many times, and quite a few agree with you, but this thread's not about allocating blame, it's hopefully about bring closure.

[Baldric]

'Bringing' ^^^

[Cloverjo]

Please, no more McCann-bashing.
I hope this "breakthrough", if that's what it is, brings their agony to an end.

[grumpy01]

Good morning to you Baldric.Fair enough but I feel this case has, for far to long, been about the parents rather than the search for poor Maddie who,after all, is the innocent victim in all this.

[kvalidir]

Personally no I wouldn't but neither would I judge someone who had a error of judgement which lead to such heartbreaking effects for them. No-one's perfect. Not me. Not the Mcanns. Not you. Somewhere in your life you too will have done something, stupid, dangerous, or both, because that's human nature. It doesn't do to judge.

[youngmafbog]

Agree with you grumpy, but back to Mickeys question. It appears there are a number of sites, they are not saying what they expect to find here - could be anything.

[pips1]

I totally agree that this debate has been 'done to death' but social needs should never override parental responsibility imo.