Your Thoughts

[teacake44]

The Maddie Macann case as received more funding to continue a trail that as long since gone stone cold, ( that's if there was a trail to begin with) is it time to call it a day?

[spathiphyllum]

I always use to say yes, stop funding the case. However, after that documentary, i see how ignorant i was to the number of lines of enquiry they can still peruse (and are perusing). I think the UK MET (am i right in saying the case is with them?) Need to investigate the Portuguese police.

I believe their is a slight conspiracy behind this case, and i'm all up for unearthing it.

In reality, the money we're putting towards this case wouldn't be used elsewhere, would it? And if it were, chances it'd go where i'd want it to is minimal.

Let em get on with it.

[spathiphyllum]

I feel bad for the parents, and how the continuing of this enquiry may be giving false hope.

I believe as soon as the story went as viral as it did, any trace of Madeline was buried... DEEP. Big shame.

Only lessons can be learned.

[agchristie]

//I feel bad for the parents, and how the continuing of this enquiry may be giving false hope. //

Spath,you suggest in your first post that funding should continue!!

[spathiphyllum]

That doesn't mean i can't have sympathy for potential false hope.

I don't think we'll ever find Madeline but i think we may find people who had something to do with it.

[Rockrose]

This has been discussed on AB many times - perhaps you should look at related posts you may get your answers there.

[hereIam]

I'm baffled as to why you have brought this up ..

[spathiphyllum]

Because more money has just been pumped into the case.

Also, time changes, more info surfaced (the documentary)

I don't see why it isn't an important topic.

It was a MASSIVE case. Still is.

https://www.itv.com/news/central/2019-06-05/more-funding-agreed-to-find-madeleine-mccann/

[Cloverjo]

Every time this comes up, the same old arguments are repeated and the McCann-bashing starts again.

From what I read £300,000 has been made available. Not a colossal amount of money, really. I hope it leads to a happy outcome, but I very much doubt it.

[spathiphyllum]

Fact is, it was a government decision(home office) to continue with funds for the case. If they have avenues to peruse, then why not?

The McCanns have and had no say over this funding.

[sanmac]

Its obvious that teacake44 is interested in the case and, if in fact more funding has been allocated to it, she wants to know your present opinions on the situation regardless of previous thoughts. It's quite common for people to change their mind regarding things. In my case, I say I think everything and more has been done...Leave it alone.

[teacake44]

As to the comments made by Rockrose, and hereIam, I don't need to reply as spath and sanmac have done it for me.

[Sqad]

To be fair......it is likely that Madeleine was dead within 48 hours after her nonappearance ( statistics) and i understand both sides of the argument.
My main objection is that ALL children that have disappeared in similar circumstances should but haven't been afforded the same amount of monetary support.
This looks on the surface like "favoritism".....middle class professional couple being given special treatment.

[vulcan42]

Totally agree sqad, there are still a lot of children missing and their cases have been closed, Do their parents not matter?

[Bazile]

I feel sorry for any parent who has 'lost' a child .
However in this case , i agree with sqad .

[Patsy33]

I agree with sqad too. Something not right with this case...

[hereIam]

And I am quite happy with my comment teacake and stand by it.

[naomi24]

It has been discussed frequently, but since new people join AB all the time reintroducing topics isn’t a bad thing.

I don’t know how I feel about further funding really. As I parent I know that if this were my child I would never want to give up the search, but rationality tells me that this poor little girl is probably dead and has been since shortly after she was abducted.

[hereIam]

I have always thought that naomi.

[naomi24]

sqad, //My main objection is that ALL children that have disappeared in similar circumstances should but haven't been afforded the same amount of monetary support. //

Few children who have disappeared in similar circumstances have remained missing for very long. Most have been found dead. Additionally most children who go missing for long periods of time aren't toddlers - they're older children. This little girl was just three years old. I think that's why substantial amounts of money have been spent in trying to find her.

[ladybirder]

If and when there are new leads, any new information, regarding a missing child, the police will follow up on it until they come to the end. It's not just Madeleine.