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By Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
7:00AM BST 09 Sep 2014

There is another possible explanation of Madeleine’s disappearance that would – almost certainly – have involved no malfeasance. It is that Madeleine – just short of her fourth birthday – conceivably woke, got out of bed and wandered out into the night of her own volition. This was the possibility first considered by the Portuguese patrol car officers who responded to the emergency, then suggested to Kate the following day by regional police chief Guilhermino Encarnação.
The British priest, Paul Seddon, whom Kate called in the early hours, recalled trying to calm her by saying that “Madeleine could have had a bout of sleepwalking and that she would be all right. I remember that Kate was worried by the fact that Madeleine was wearing short-sleeved pyjamas and could catch a cold.”
Father Seddon, who knew the McCanns well – he had baptised Madeleine and often played golf with Gerry – continued to hope the child “could have left alone, as she was a very adventurous girl”. Even the next day, a spokesman for the tour operator that ran the Ocean Club [where the McCanns were staying] expressed the hope “that she is sleeping under a bush somewhere”.
Though both Kate and Gerry rejected the possibility that their daughter had wandered off, the notion was not preposterous. Children can and do sometimes wander. Two years later, in New Zealand, a two-year-old did indeed stray in broad daylight and apparently crawled or fell into a nearby manhole with a faulty cover. She was found dead, after a week’s intensive searching.
There were such hazards in Praia da Luz in 2007. A police report in the files records the fact that “open trenches” in two streets, Rua Direita and Rua Helena do Nascimiento Batista, had been left open on the evening of May 3. For an adult, at any rate, both streets are only a few minutes’ walk from Apartment 5A. When the trenches were checked, though, on the morning of May 4 and as word spread that a child was missing, nothing was found.

An adventure resulting in a fatal accident, while not impossible, is, however, less than probable. Had Madeleine wandered out of the apartment, she would almost certainly have made her exit by the patio door – left unlocked to make checking on the children easier – that led to the terrace and the steps down to the street. Her most likely route then would have been to walk the few yards downhill to the entrance that led to the swimming pool and the Tapas restaurant. It was a route with which she was familiar, and her parents were eating in the Tapas.
It is Kate McCann, though, who has articulated the best reason to dismiss the notion that Madeleine left the apartment of her own volition, and by the patio door. One would have to accept, Kate has reasoned, that on leaving Madeleine would have: opened the curtains on the patio door and closed them behind her; opened the patio door and closed it behind her; and opened and closed both a child safety gate and the gate to the street. Would such a little girl really have done that ?

worriedmum wrote:quote ''The British priest, Paul Seddon, whom Kate called in the early hours, recalled trying to calm her by saying that “Madeleine could have had a bout of sleepwalking and that she would be all right. I remember that Kate was worried by the fact that Madeleine was wearing short-sleeved pyjamas and could catch a cold.”
Father Seddon, who knew the McCanns well – he had baptised Madeleine and often played golf with Gerry – continued to hope the child “could have left alone, as she was a very adventurous girl”. Even the next day, a spokesman for the tour operator that ran the Ocean Club [where the McCanns were staying] expressed the hope “that she is sleeping under a bush somewhere”.
BUT both parents returned to the apartment till it got light again , Gerry had a little nap.
So ,if catching a cold wearing short-sleeved pyjamas was the least of your worries when your three year old girl disappears in the night in a foreign country, and p.129 is the worst, HOW DO YOU FORCE YOURSELF NOT TO SEARCH? WHEN, AS YOU LATER CLAIM, NO-ONE ELSE IS SEARCHING EITHER?

PeterMac wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/11082514/Did-Madeleine-wander-off.html

By Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
7:00AM BST 09 Sep 2014

There is another possible explanation of Madeleine’s disappearance that would – almost certainly – have involved no malfeasance. It is that Madeleine – just short of her fourth birthday – conceivably woke, got out of bed and wandered out into the night of her own volition. This was the possibility first considered by the Portuguese patrol car officers who responded to the emergency, then suggested to Kate the following day by regional police chief Guilhermino Encarnação.
The British priest, Paul Seddon, whom Kate called in the early hours, recalled trying to calm her by saying that “Madeleine could have had a bout of sleepwalking and that she would be all right. I remember that Kate was worried by the fact that Madeleine was wearing short-sleeved pyjamas and could catch a cold.”
Father Seddon, who knew the McCanns well – he had baptised Madeleine and often played golf with Gerry – continued to hope the child “could have left alone, as she was a very adventurous girl”. Even the next day, a spokesman for the tour operator that ran the Ocean Club [where the McCanns were staying] expressed the hope “that she is sleeping under a bush somewhere”.
Though both Kate and Gerry rejected the possibility that their daughter had wandered off, the notion was not preposterous. Children can and do sometimes wander. Two years later, in New Zealand, a two-year-old did indeed stray in broad daylight and apparently crawled or fell into a nearby manhole with a faulty cover. She was found dead, after a week’s intensive searching.
There were such hazards in Praia da Luz in 2007. A police report in the files records the fact that “open trenches” in two streets, Rua Direita and Rua Helena do Nascimiento Batista, had been left open on the evening of May 3. For an adult, at any rate, both streets are only a few minutes’ walk from Apartment 5A. When the trenches were checked, though, on the morning of May 4 and as word spread that a child was missing, nothing was found.

An adventure resulting in a fatal accident, while not impossible, is, however, less than probable. Had Madeleine wandered out of the apartment, she would almost certainly have made her exit by the patio door – left unlocked to make checking on the children easier – that led to the terrace and the steps down to the street. Her most likely route then would have been to walk the few yards downhill to the entrance that led to the swimming pool and the Tapas restaurant. It was a route with which she was familiar, and her parents were eating in the Tapas.
It is Kate McCann, though, who has articulated the best reason to dismiss the notion that Madeleine left the apartment of her own volition, and by the patio door. One would have to accept, Kate has reasoned, that on leaving Madeleine would have: opened the curtains on the patio door and closed them behind her; opened the patio door and closed it behind her; and opened and closed both a child safety gate and the gate to the street. Would such a little girl really have done that ?

As opposed to an abductor, who had to do exactly that, whilst also carrying a child, either alive or recently dead . . .!
Do they not read through what they have written ?

By Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan7:00AM BST 09 Sep 2014

Former Detective Inspector Ian Horrocks, who was with the Metropolitan Police for 30 years, studied Madeleine’s case over many months, visited Praia da Luz and produced a lengthy summary of his views. He theorised, drawing on his experience of kidnapping cases, that the abduction may have been done by “someone who wanted her as part of his or their family”.
Thefts of babies do occur. Typically, an infant is taken within days of his or her birth, often from hospitals. Such an abduction, studies by the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) suggest, may be committed by a previously pregnant woman who has miscarried, or one who finds herself infertile, or one who has a male partner but is not living with him and wants to get him back.
In the UK, there was for a time a charity that – among its other causes – supported women who had kidnapped children. The Portia Trust’s founder, Ken Norman, claimed most such women are not mentally ill but simply “cannot accept that their child is dead or have an unbearable desire for a baby of their own. They may have spent months, even years, looking for a child that resembles the one they have lost and is of the same age.”
The very purpose of such child thefts is to nurture the child, to raise it to adulthood as if it were the woman’s own. “The babies are very rarely harmed,” a NCMEC spokesman has said. “The recovery rate is very good.”
In one case in the United States, a woman aged 23 contacted NCMEC on realising she had neither birth certificate nor Social Security card. Her case was investigated and her true biological parents identified. The parents had never given up hope that they would find their missing daughter – just as the McCanns have said they will never give up hope of finding Madeleine.

SHE hit headlines all over the world after being snatched from hospital at just three hours old, and kept captive for 17 days.
Now baby Abbie Humphries has grown up – and the 16-year-old has spoken for the first time about her dramatic start to life.
In fact, the drama surrounding her abduction from the Queen's Medical Centre in July 1994 has shaped her future ambitions.
She is considering becoming a police officer, saying: "I learned how hard the police worked looking for me — perhaps that's why I've been thinking about joining up. Maybe I'll end up as a detective."

PeterMac wrote:They are setting each scenario up, one by one, and then destroying it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/11082517/Could-Madeleine-be-safe-and-well-cared-for.html

By Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan7:00AM BST 09 Sep 2014

Former Detective Inspector Ian Horrocks, who was with the Metropolitan Police for 30 years, studied Madeleine’s case over many months, visited Praia da Luz and produced a lengthy summary of his views. He theorised, drawing on his experience of kidnapping cases, that the abduction may have been done by “someone who wanted her as part of his or their family”.
Thefts of babies do occur. Typically, an infant is taken within days of his or her birth, often from hospitals. Such an abduction, studies by the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) suggest, may be committed by a previously pregnant woman who has miscarried, or one who finds herself infertile, or one who has a male partner but is not living with him and wants to get him back.
In the UK, there was for a time a charity that – among its other causes – supported women who had kidnapped children. The Portia Trust’s founder, Ken Norman, claimed most such women are not mentally ill but simply “cannot accept that their child is dead or have an unbearable desire for a baby of their own. They may have spent months, even years, looking for a child that resembles the one they have lost and is of the same age.”
The very purpose of such child thefts is to nurture the child, to raise it to adulthood as if it were the woman’s own. “The babies are very rarely harmed,” a NCMEC spokesman has said. “The recovery rate is very good.”
In one case in the United States, a woman aged 23 contacted NCMEC on realising she had neither birth certificate nor Social Security card. Her case was investigated and her true biological parents identified. The parents had never given up hope that they would find their missing daughter – just as the McCanns have said they will never give up hope of finding Madeleine.

So that is that, then.
Nothing about abducting a dead 4 year old.  Even Horrocks doesn't go near that one.
Nothing about why two living 2 years olds would be disregarded, bearing in mind that there was one of each sort, and neither had a genetic defect - so far as we know.

These are "straw men' arguments.
Set up simply for the purpose of being shown to have no possible connection.
Is the Telegraph 'Cherry picking' from the book to deride it ?

I was involved in this one.   http://www.nottinghampost.com/Snatched-baby-Abbie-aged-16-dramatic-start-life/story-12173569-detail/story.html

SHE hit headlines all over the world after being snatched from hospital at just three hours old, and kept captive for 17 days.
Now baby Abbie Humphries has grown up – and the 16-year-old has spoken for the first time about her dramatic start to life.
In fact, the drama surrounding her abduction from the Queen's Medical Centre in July 1994 has shaped her future ambitions.
She is considering becoming a police officer, saying: "I learned how hard the police worked looking for me — perhaps that's why I've been thinking about joining up. Maybe I'll end up as a detective."

THREE HOURS OLD.   Not FOUR YEARS, and leaking cadaverine.

Doug D wrote:Together with three ‘edited extract(s) from 'Looking for Madeleine', a new book on the McCann case, the authors analyse’ from The Telegraph today, together with a short video from their own staff.
 
 
Madeleine: if only the McCanns had known about the Algarve
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/11081857/Madeleine-if-only-the-McCanns-had-known-about-the-Algarve.html
 
Could Madeleine be safe and well-cared for?
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/11082517/Could-Madeleine-be-safe-and-well-cared-for.html
 
 
Did Madeleine wander off?

This is not analysis this is Musak - lift elevator music - desgined to lull your senses into complete abandonment of all rational judgement.

They are deft at inserting sentences such as:

""Even the next day, a spokesman for the tour operator that ran the Ocean Club [where the McCanns were staying] expressed the hope “that she is sleeping under a bush somewhere”. "

This is inserted in the text in a way to make you think these are the first thoughts of the McCanns - that she might have wandered off. They are indeed probably the first thoughts that any parent might have...even if only in terms of wishing it to be true. But S&S are misleading us.

In actual fact we have absolutely no evidence the McCanns ever accepted she could have wandered off. From the first "they've taken her" , through the demands to "close the borders", the claims there had been a break-in and the later insistent demands she had been taken by a predator, the McCanns never once showed any recognition that a 3 yr old with a propensity to go wandering in her own home during the night (as proven by the star chart in her home) might have wandered out owing to the absence of her parents in the apartment.

Do S&S think we are so easily bamboozled and hoodwinked?








 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/11082514/Did-Madeleine-wander-off.html
 
 
Madeleine McCann: the investigation's suspects in 90 seconds
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/11082996/Madeleine-McCann-the-investigations-suspects-in-90-seconds.html

Okeydokey wrote:What does the "suspects in 90 secs" headline refer to?  

It was several days at least before they were declared Arguidos...

The fact is the McCanns' behaviour was bizarre from the off.  Remember GMcC prostrating himself before the Police like a Muslim at prayer, according to the officers?  What middle class Brit with a medical training as a doctor does that? I've never heard of anything like it in my life before.

PeterMac wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/11082514/Did-Madeleine-wander-off.html

By Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
7:00AM BST 09 Sep 2014

There is another possible explanation of Madeleine’s disappearance that would – almost certainly – have involved no malfeasance. It is that Madeleine – just short of her fourth birthday – conceivably woke, got out of bed and wandered out into the night of her own volition. This was the possibility first considered by the Portuguese patrol car officers who responded to the emergency, then suggested to Kate the following day by regional police chief Guilhermino Encarnação.
The British priest, Paul Seddon, whom Kate called in the early hours, recalled trying to calm her by saying that “Madeleine could have had a bout of sleepwalking and that she would be all right. I remember that Kate was worried by the fact that Madeleine was wearing short-sleeved pyjamas and could catch a cold.”
Father Seddon, who knew the McCanns well – he had baptised Madeleine and often played golf with Gerry – continued to hope the child “could have left alone, as she was a very adventurous girl”. Even the next day, a spokesman for the tour operator that ran the Ocean Club [where the McCanns were staying] expressed the hope “that she is sleeping under a bush somewhere”.
Though both Kate and Gerry rejected the possibility that their daughter had wandered off, the notion was not preposterous. Children can and do sometimes wander. Two years later, in New Zealand, a two-year-old did indeed stray in broad daylight and apparently crawled or fell into a nearby manhole with a faulty cover. She was found dead, after a week’s intensive searching.
There were such hazards in Praia da Luz in 2007. A police report in the files records the fact that “open trenches” in two streets, Rua Direita and Rua Helena do Nascimiento Batista, had been left open on the evening of May 3. For an adult, at any rate, both streets are only a few minutes’ walk from Apartment 5A. When the trenches were checked, though, on the morning of May 4 and as word spread that a child was missing, nothing was found.

An adventure resulting in a fatal accident, while not impossible, is, however, less than probable. Had Madeleine wandered out of the apartment, she would almost certainly have made her exit by the patio door – left unlocked to make checking on the children easier – that led to the terrace and the steps down to the street. Her most likely route then would have been to walk the few yards downhill to the entrance that led to the swimming pool and the Tapas restaurant. It was a route with which she was familiar, and her parents were eating in the Tapas.
It is Kate McCann, though, who has articulated the best reason to dismiss the notion that Madeleine left the apartment of her own volition, and by the patio door. One would have to accept, Kate has reasoned, that on leaving Madeleine would have: opened the curtains on the patio door and closed them behind her; opened the patio door and closed it behind her; and opened and closed both a child safety gate and the gate to the street. Would such a little girl really have done that ?

As opposed to an abductor, who had to do exactly that, whilst also carrying a child, either alive or recently dead . . .!
Do they not read through what they have written ?

Evening_All wrote:SNIP
As opposed to an abductor, who had to do exactly that, whilst also carrying a child, either alive or recently dead . . .!
Do they not read through what they have written ?

McCanns own website.
“Lisbon 14th January 2010
There are few points which have been raised in the last few days which I would like
to address specifically:
Abduction theory: For us, there is only the abduction theory possible because we
were not involved in Madeleine's disappearance and we know Madeleine did not
wander off by herself. It is obvious and right that the police should consider other
theories initially.
The window: I described to the police officers exactly what I found that night, as it
was and is highly relevant and I knew that every little detail could be helpful in
finding my daughter which is our only aim. The window which is a ground floor
window was completely open and is large enough for a person to easily climb
through it. Whether it had been opened for this purpose remains unknown. It could
of course have been opened by the perpetrator when inside the apartment as a
potential escape route or left open as a 'red herring'.

Okeydokey wrote:What does the "suspects in 90 secs" headline refer to?  

It was several days at least before they were declared Arguidos...

The fact is the McCanns' behaviour was bizarre from the off.  Remember GMcC prostrating himself before the Police like a Muslim at prayer, according to the officers?  What middle class Brit with a medical training as a doctor does that? I've never heard of anything like it in my life before.