***Missing People Bike Ride now under way (Kate McCann, Simon Cowell and Stephen Fry back Missing People campaign on Twitter)

tinkier wrote:And how does this particular child alert system in the U.K. affect what happened to MBM who went missing in Portugal? A most unusual case in itself, because i believe children of parents that holiday abroad rarely turn up missing? I can't think of too many cases like that offhand. But i guess if like the McC's you leave 3 very small children to fend for themselves in an otherwise empty holiday apartment while the parents are out having a good time, then is it any big surprise if something tragic happens? Maybe K. McC should be advocating for such systems in foreign countries seeing as her own child went missing in Portugal and not the U.K.




Joss……it seems CEOP and Missing People UK are members http://www.amberalert.eu/Members.aspx

mysterion wrote:Can`t do a link from my tablet but the comments on the Daily Express article of yesterday are worth a read. The link is prominent on Google search.

jeanmonroe wrote:Rumour has it that John McCann, who resigned from the Madeleine's Fund Board of Directors, is not on this cycle challenge for 'the fun of it'. He's there as a chaperone to [Kate McCann and Fiona Payne]...

Tony Bennett wrote:

DR KATE McCANN

Nina wrote:http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/584251/Madeleine-McCann-mum-Kate-500-mile-Missing-People-bike-ride

Ladyinred wrote:

Nina wrote:http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/584251/Madeleine-McCann-mum-Kate-500-mile-Missing-People-bike-ride

Wow... Do have a look.  44 comments, including one from PeterMac 

George Harper, please join our forum!

BlueBag wrote:

There is a game going on here.

BlueBag wrote:
"...perfect murder executed..."
That opinion is not shared by the majority here.

PeterMacs post scuppered by a scurrilous accusation.

garfy wrote:

Tony Bennett wrote:

DR KATE McCANN

aww.......what a happy little sole k mcc is .not a care in the world .has she

PeterMac wrote:

BlueBag wrote:
"...perfect murder executed..."
That opinion is not shared by the majority here.

PeterMacs post scuppered by a scurrilous accusation.

Not sure it is entirely "scuppered"
It was on the list of hypotheses put forward in the early days by the PJ team, when they had open minds.
I personally do not think this is the correct word to use.
Constructive manslaughter by deliberate and calculated and repeated and ADMITTED negligence being slightly closer !
But probably not QUITE close enough

http://e-lawresources.co.uk/Constructive-manslaughter.php
Edmund Davies LJ in Church:
"the unlawful act must be such as all sober and reasonable people would inevitably recognise must subject the other person to, at least, the risk of some harm resulting therefrom, albeit not serious harm."

and a lot later in the diatribe
"Consequently it need only be established that the defendant had the mens rea of the unlawful act committed. There is no requirement of mens rea in relation to the ensuing death."


Unlike in Portugal, where there IS.  This is why they were not charged with Wilful Abandonment.

BlueBag wrote:
Whatever happened there is zero evidence she was deliberately killed.
We have to be careful and precise about what we say otherwise we won't last long.
Accusations of murder are ammunition for the other side.
I notice Basil Brush has attached some nonsense to your second post. Apparently she was murdered by Saville and the 9th Circle whoever they are.
What a game.

PeterMac9 hours ago
I don't think anyone who has read the evidence believes they killed Madeleine. And your use of that word is therefore inappropriate. I think, subject to correction, that most people tend towards the view that Madeleine may have died accidentally, perhaps by falling onto the marble floor behind the sofa, and that the parents then made a bad decision in concealing this, rather than admitting they had not been checking the children, as they subsequently claimed. Other parents have made that bad decision before, and will no doubt do so again.

jeanmonroe wrote:Has anyone managed to find out the names of the other 17/21 'riders' on this 'adventure'(KM)?

If Kate #McCann falls off her bike, who will she call first?

a) Sky News
b) Clarence Mitchell
c) An ambulance

'It’s inevitable I will be thinking of Madeleine'

Obviously I can’t give any investigation details out but let’s just say we’re really encouraged. There has been a lot of progress in the last six months, plus last year. The co-operation between the UK and the Portuguese seems to be really good which is really positive for us and I can say there is progress being made.

Kate McCann, mother of missing Madeleine, is taking part in a bike ride from Edinburgh to London to raise awareness and funds for the charities Missing People and Child Rescue Alert. The team plan to cycle 500 miles in five days, and we're catching up with them on day three.

Eight years since Madeleine McCann disappeared, a child is reported missing every five minutes in the UK (National Crime Agency figures 2012/13) - 89% of those missing incidents are resolved within 48 hours.

Child Rescue Alert is a UK-wide alerting system to secure the safe return of the most vulnerable missing children - the charity currently have 556 live appeals.

Kate tells us that she is 'encouraged' by the developments in the search for her missing daughter, and that when times get tough she'll be saying "I’m doing this for Madeleine, I’m doing this for all missing children.”